I had been playing with Threads 7.2.2 since December, and planned on migrating from Classic to Threads after 7.3 was final. But, my Classic board went belly-up on Jan 8th, so I quickly migrated to Threads, and things are great.
Now that 7.3 is close, I want to be able to setup a place to test out the new features of 7.3, without disrupting my 7.2.2 production code. Our board is fairly big, about 1GB total in DB storage, and I've done a bit of customization for styles and some other minor things in the code itself. I'd like to be able to test the 7.3 code against my existing DB, without having to create another DB and migrate all the data. Of course, this assumes that none of the 7.3 delivery includes DB changes - if it does, then I'd want to have a totally separate install and DB to test against.
Even it that's the case, I'd still like to be able to test out the turning on of different features (the Portal Page, Gallery, Attachments, etc) without affecting my production board. Again, since my Classic board went belly-up, I didn't really have a chance to test all these things before I was forced to migrate to Threads. Now I'm at the point where I'd like to investigate some of these features.
My thought is to simply create a copy of my production directory on the server, copy all the files to the new directory, and then change the config.inc.php to reference the new directory.
Is there anything else I'd need to do, or are there any 'gotchas' in doing this that I'm not thinking about?
