setting up a testing folder

[paulrus]

Ok, I'm kind of a newbie in that I spent like 6 months setting up our shop and then we had a baby & have just been running the shop and not modifying it or fixing any bugs.

 

Now I'd like to set up a subdomain like testing.myserver.com and run the latest 2.2CVS + contributions I want to try on that domain, but I want to pull from the same database I'm using on my main domain.

 

AFAIK this shouldn't be a problem, right? Everything is on the same server.

 

Is there anything I should be aware of before I set this up? I should also mention (Ian may be the only one who remembers me) that I'm running a Japanese only site. Has there been any major developments on the Japanese side? We're still using the EUC encoded version & probably can't move away from it since all of our products are EUC encoded now.

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[mattice]

Is there anything I should be aware of before I set this up?

 

1) Your db might be different from the latest snap. I'm quite sure it will be.

2) Sharing the db will reflect any changes / errors both on the test / live shop which seems undesired.

 

HTH

Mattice