By hp3 on

I recently took over a web site that is using drupal 4.7.2. I am new to using drupal, so if my question is already answered somewhere please post the link.

I need to test a new feature for my site. I've made a backup copy of drupal and its corresponding mysql database. I will be using for these for testing. Currently my "test site" version of drupal is configured to retrieve data from the same database as my live site. I would like reconfigure the test site to retreive data from the backup database, instead of the live database, so any changes I make will not affect the live version of the site.

How do I reconfigure the test version of drupal to retrieve data from my backup database?

Thanks for any help.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Look under the sites directory for sites/default/settiings.php. Edit settings.php and change the value for $db_url.

shawnp’s picture

shawnp commented

You can change to a different database by editing the settings.php file found in the sites/default. There will be a line similar to

$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';

Just change the databasename if the copy is on the same server as your live site.

hp3’s picture

hp3 commented

thanks, that did the trick.