A simple WordPress staging installation creation bash shell script.
The goal of this script is to provide an easy way for one to create staging installations of their WordPress websites in a Linux. It simply clones the source WordPress directory, trying to be as intuitive as possible by detecting the Linux user of the target, using the same database user as the source and making all the necessary database string replacements, so that the result is a full working staging clone of the source.
Call wp-staging-create.sh, preferrably as root, so that there will be no
file access issues, and provide it with the following parameters:
- --base-url
- --base-directory
- --source-directory
- --staging-name
The script clones the source directory to the target directory, changes the
clone's ownership to the same user as the base directory, updates the clone's
.htaccess and wp-config.php files, dumps the source database, creates a new
database with the name of the staging installation, uses the same user as the
source database for simplicity, imports the source database dump to it, replaces
all the path and url strings in that database, thus creating a working clone of
the source WordPress installation in the target directory and at the target url.
In order to cleanup the staging directory after you are done with it you can
call the wp-staging-delete.sh script and give the following parameter:
- --staging-directory
The /app/ directory provides a special web application wrapper that enables the
easy usage of the scripts. You may install it in the public_html directory of a
CPanel user that will hold your staging websites and then follow the instructions
in the Help menu. Note that it will require setting a cron job in your system's
crontab.
Uses the "Interconnect/it Database search and replacement script".
Uses the "WordPress command line interface (WP-CLI)".
The license for this project is GPL v.3.