Wordpress

Clone a Wordpress Site

• website name: website
• test website: test.website

• create /var/www/website-test/wp-config.php

Re-Clone

rsync -av /var/www/website/public_html /var/www/website-test/ --delete 
cp /var/www/website-test/wp-config.php /var/www/website-test/public_html/

• remove redirect from VH apache (to be set back when test ends)

vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/test-website.conf
service apache2 reload

• sync DB

mysqlc="mysql -u website_test "
$mysqlc -e "DROP DATABASE website_test"
$mysqlc -e "CREATE DATABASE website_test"
mysqldump -u website  website | $mysqlc website_test