[Nfb-web] Test Site Question About Drupal

[Michael Hansen]

Joe,

What Everett posted is very true, and I to have only ever installed
drupal manually. Now more directly to your question, a test site is
simply a second website that you do not advertise to the public. It is
an exact duplicate of your public site that you can try things out on
with out taking the risk of crashing your public site.

For example:
Public Site:   http://www.nfb-web.nfb.org
Test Site:    http://test.nfb-web.nfb.org

In the near future I will be performing a upgrade of thw webmasters
site from Drupal 6.9 to Drupal 6.10. I will first do that upgrade on
the test site to make sure it goes smoothly.

You can down load the latest version of drupal here:
http://drupal.org/project/drupal

And you can download add on modules to drupal here:
http://drupal.org/project/Modules
I specifically encourage you to install: Backup and Migrate
http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

Let me know if I didn't answer something you are interested in or if
you have other questions.

Mike
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Mike Hansen
NFB of Nebraska



On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Joe Orozco <jsorozco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Mike Hansen and all,
>
> Can you repost another explanation of test sites with Drupal?  I downloaded
> 6.6 from my host, but then I am told I need to download the latest update.
> My host does not have this update, so I don't know how I go about
> downloading this update without wrecking whatever I already began
> configuring.  Sorry for the elementary question.  I'm making my way through
> the beginner user documentation but figured I could get a direct response to
> this specific question here as opposed to sifting through manuals.  In
> summation, how do I install the software without disrupting anything else?
> I'm using Fantastico through my host to install the package in the first
> place.  Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Joe Orozco
>
> "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
> crowd."--Max Lucado
>
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