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Creating a sandbox / test project

Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 02:52
by Starbuck
I'd like to create a test project where new users can experiment. This should be a sandbox that's separated from other projects to avoid tests from showing in lists, effectiveness, etc. I'd like to avoid creating a completely separate environment but it looks like this might be the best option for this purpose.

Rather than duplicating the server code and creating a new database, I'd rather create a separate instance that runs off the same code and db, just with different tables. I have added a prefix to table names for this purpose. I'm just not sure how to wire this up properly with the folders, symlinks, configs, etc.

So foo.com/my_view_page.php is already mapped to bt1_tables and I'd like to get foo.com/test/my_view_page.php to use test1_tables without copying all of the files into that test folder.

Tips?

Thanks.

Re: Creating a sandbox / test project

Posted: 09 Nov 2017, 02:57
by Starbuck
As often happens, you look and look and after feeling like you've done your research you post to a forum... and then you find the answers after clicking just one or two more pages...

Are these old solutions still valid?
http://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopi ... =3&t=19243
https://www.mantisbt.org/wiki/doku.php/ ... stallation