Working Copy Component

Administrators usually work on their live site directly and sometimes they do mistakes as all people do. As a result, the live site gets messed after extension installation/uninstallation process and re-configuration. The idea is to have a working copy of the live site and make changes on it, then, if everything is okay after some testing, you can approve changes and the tool will apply them to your live site.

This project was done in frames of Google Summer of Code 2009.

Project Blog can be found at http://community.joomla.org/gsoc2009/edvard-ananyan.html

If you find issues, please report them: http://code.google.com/p/jwcp/issues/list

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byWebJIVE on October 1, 2009
This is where the GSOC is paying dividends just like with the Front End Editing component! Excellent tool for site developers or production sites allowing you to run a second copy, do what you want to it (testing) and then roll that change up to the master site for production.

Keep up the awesome work on this component.
bypmartin62 on September 30, 2009
A must have for a Joomla administrator. You can work on your site without danger.

In just 1 clic you create a clone of your site, and can play with it to test a new release of Joomla, a new extension, a new design, or your own developments.

Thanks a lot for it... now I'm sleeping better !
Seems to be a great Component.
Gives you the change to test new options on the same server.
but ...
..when making a child, not all the files were copied. I think it's because the PHP-routine got out-of-time. So with a large site, files should be copied manually :-(
Owner's reply

When creating a child site, there is an option to copy files manually, or if you have big folders, you can select to copy them after manually, if you read the help it is described there.