By droop_all on
Hello. Brand-new to Drupal and the forum! I apologize if I've missed a recent, germane post.
I want to "clone" a production Drupal machine, either by duplicating the disk's file systems (Linux dd command) and then changing IP address info, or by just restoring the big backup tarball onto another machine with Drupal on it.
I'm being warned by the old Drupal sage (who no longer works here) that there are things deep inside Drupal which will utterly defeat such efforts, or at least, lead to a myriad of manual changes to be tracked down, before the new host will work.
Has anyone done something similar? Anyone created an exhaustive list of config files to tweak, in order to do this?
Any help appreciated.
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The only config file in Drupal is settings.php where you must alter your $db_url to relfect the new $db_url
outside of that, the only problem you have is your content. If you've used relative urls for images and such, you are fine. if you've used absolute urls for content these must all be changed.
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