Testing new site when old site is still live

[Little Lou]

Hi there

We currently have a fully operational website but are re-jigging it using Actinic.

How do I test the new site without over-riding the current website. There are various new things we've introduced like ssl which I want to make sure works when we switch !

We do have another domain use we could test it on but that one is on a different host to our current site and I don't think I'll be able to test ssl as that's on the host that our current live website is on. (Does that make sense ?)

Thanks

Hayley

[jont]

You can upload the test files to a different part of the webserver ... eg test/acatalog rather than acatalog .... ensure you use a different script id in the network settings and untick the "use as homepage" against the home icon at the top of the content tree.

I prefer to use a subdomain so instead of www.site.com use test.site.com

[pinbrook]

why not simply use the TEST mode within actinc, this copies everything to a subfolder within the acatalog folder. amd prefixes cgi scripts with 9

You can test ssl within a sub folder but not a sub domain

an ssl cert issied to www.domain.co.uk is not valid at www.test.domain.co.uk but is valid at www.domain.co.uk/acatalog/test/catalog