Anytime you introduce a complex software to emulate a web host you introduce problems. I write add-ons and I deal with many people that have had problems with their local emulation (wamp, Xampp, Mamp or Mamp Pro) not working properly. The simple solution is to do the testing in the environment the software will be running on, that is on a web host, not on your PC. Lets assume that I want to set up a test server on my dedicated server at the web host, do I have to duplicate the entire site? So again i would have three sets of files: Local (on my computer) Live site (at my web host) Test server (at my web host)
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