Title: Install a mirror wordpress blog using same database
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Install a mirror wordpress blog using same database

 *  [fredhsilva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredhsilva/)
 * (@fredhsilva)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-a-mirror-wordpress-blog-using-same-database/)
 * Hi
 * I have a website running on wordpress with a forum and almost 400 registered 
   users.
    I’m looking to upgrade my blog theme, but I wanted to full test it and
   customizing it in the background and to preserve all the info.
 * • Is possible to install wordpress in a subdirectory and do all the testing there
   using the same database and when everything is ok just replace the folders on
   the location of the actual website? to allow a overnight upgrade?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-a-mirror-wordpress-blog-using-same-database/#post-2539054)
 * No. The site’s url is stored in the database. So your only other option is to
   effectively clone the database and change the site urls. See [Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress).

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