I am trying to become more familiar with LAMP. A lot of information to sniff through. I am trying to setup a staging server, a VM host using FUSION. I am trying to replicate the site that I am now apparently managing. I wanted to make offline changes which not effect the actual site, so here I am.

I currently set up CentOS 5 with MySql, PHP, and Apache installed. I cannot figure out how to actually start creating the actual site to copy all the source code and data to.

on the actual LIVE server I have directories within /var/www/vhosts/website.com/httpdocs, currently on the STAGING server all I have is /var/www. My question do I have to manually create the directory within there? If I had Plesk or cPanel, would that have automatically created it using the web interface?

I am trying to learn more, I thought I asked. I have scoured the net for an answer, but I guess not enough so I thought I would post this question here on this forum and keep on hunting.

Hi visiony,

If the live platform is using the same versions of everything as staging you should be ok :

- rsync /var/www across
- replace your httpd.conf or /etc/httpd/conf.d/*
- copy the MySql database and my.cnf over
- copy php.ini over

.. I think that's about everything

HTH

kbp

Thanks for the reply and help KBP.

What about the virtual hosts? How would I tell apache that www.blahblah.com is hosted on this server?