Title: Create staging site without UpdraftClone
Last modified: November 2, 2023

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# Create staging site without UpdraftClone

 *  Resolved Anonymous User 21130279
 * (@anonymized-21130279)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-staging-site-without-updraftclone/)
 * Hello,
 * I am looking for an opportunity to create a staging site on a AWS EC2 instance.
   We have a productive website and doing backups with UpdraftPlus. Is it possible
   to import these backup files on the staging webserver with the Updraft plugin
   to create a staging website?
   We already tried this once but noticed that changes
   we made on the staging site were also adopted on the productive website. We think
   that the database parameter in the wp-config.php caused that issue because we
   didnt changed it to the name of the new database.
 * Does anyone can help me with this issue?
   BRMark

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 *  Plugin Support [vupdraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vupdraft/)
 * (@vupdraft)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-staging-site-without-updraftclone/#post-17170785)
 * UpdraftPlus will only update a site if the changes are migrated across (this 
   is a very deliberate action, it would never automatically sync two sites)
 * To migrate the changes from staging to a live site you would need to follow this
   guide: [https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-do-i-migrate-to-a-new-site-location/](https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-do-i-migrate-to-a-new-site-location/)
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 21130279
 * (@anonymized-21130279)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-staging-site-without-updraftclone/#post-17187891)
 * So it is not possible to change the database parameter in the wp-config.php within
   the backup files of UpdraftPlus?
 * Because I did not find this file.
 *  Plugin Support [vupdraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vupdraft/)
 * (@vupdraft)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-staging-site-without-updraftclone/#post-17198597)
 * You can backup and restore your wp-config with the premium version (although 
   we don’t recommend this)
 * It’s in the “Core” section of the backup, please see here for our guide on this:
   [https://updraftplus.com/faqs/when-i-restore-wordpress-core-should-i-include-wp-config-php-in-the-restoration/](https://updraftplus.com/faqs/when-i-restore-wordpress-core-should-i-include-wp-config-php-in-the-restoration/)

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