TYPO3 Tutorial: Cloning An Existing TYPO3 Site
Thursday, July 23, 2009So, you've just spent between 2 hours or 2 weeks putting together a functional TYPO3 website to demo to prospective clients, existing customers or for your own learning and education. You may be asking yourself, am I going to need to do this every time? The answer is no!
These 3 short tutorials demonstrate one method of how to use Putty SSH (Secure Shell) and WinSCP to quickly duplicate / clone an existing TYPO3 installation for reuse in other projects, demos or education and training.
Subdomains are very useful for starting new TYPO3 projects or creating a development version of a live website for testing, new development and debugging.
The tutorial assumes you have access to cPanel, SSH access and a VPS for root access to change ownership of files and directories (eg. www-data, nobody, apache).
If you do not have a VPS or SSH, we recommend looking at Servint. Chances are if you're paying for shared hosting, a VPS will be cheaper, run faster and speed up your development process.