There’s a few things you need to do once you have your staging domain name all set up.
1. Copy the database. Export it to a file, create a staging database, Open exported database file with any well know editor(like notepad++) and replace current domain “currentdomain.com” to new domain “newdomain.com” and import this dump file.
2. Copy the files to new domain folder. Make sure you clear the var/cache and var/session folders as they’ll have old data that we don’t need.
3. Update the app/etc/local.xml file with your new staging database information. This step is important!
5. Finally, load up the staging domain, and that should about do it!
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