How to re-skin a working forum [message #30539] |
Thu, 02 March 2006 03:56 |
Jay D.
Messages: 22 Registered: September 2005 Location: West Palm
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Howdy all!
I am getting ready to re-skin my forum. The "Current" forum is heavily customized. I'd like to create a "New Test" forum to make sure it works before going live.
The question I have is how do I go about copying the current working forum, and re-skinning it, and then testing it?
Should I create a new forum. Copy all the files of the "Current" to it and then work from there?
What about viewing the changes? can I just set one user to see the new forum?
thanks for all the help!
Jay
howdy
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Re: How to re-skin a working forum [message #30547 is a reply to message #30539] |
Thu, 02 March 2006 14:11 |
Ilia
Messages: 13241 Registered: January 2002
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You can do a forum data dump, then install a fresh copy of the forum and import the data dump into it. The end result would be an identical copy of your existing forum.
FUDforum Core Developer
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Re: How to re-skin a working forum [message #30549 is a reply to message #30547] |
Thu, 02 March 2006 14:42 |
Jay D.
Messages: 22 Registered: September 2005 Location: West Palm
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So I can run this in a different directory till I get the skin finished, and then data dump it back into a tar ball. Go to the live Forums and overwrite? Does that sound correct to you?
howdy
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