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  • William Neal 2 posts 72 karma points
    Feb 20, 2018 @ 17:21
    William Neal
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    Create a dev environment for a site that is already live

    Hi,

    We have a multi domain website in which historically development work was outsourced. I am budding web developer exploring options about doing some development work in house. We have a multi-domain website (version 7.3.4), with testing, staging, production servers. There is number of partial view components, which each site utilizes. I would like to be be able to make amendments to these components, and create new components.

    I am able to find lots of guides on setting up a development environment and deploying to production, but I am not able to find such an extensive guidance about setting up a development environment for a site that is already live.

    What is the best way to clone a production website so that I can create a local development environment with Visual Studio?

    Thanks,

    Will

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  • David Zweben 268 posts 753 karma points
    Feb 21, 2018 @ 01:15
    David Zweben
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    It seems to me like you may be overthinking it. Have you tried simply copying the site's files to your local machine, opening the folder in Visual Studio, and running the site via IIS Express in VS?

    Also, what's the current deployment process between the test/staging/production environments? Are you using any sort of version control?

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