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How to Clone a website

Cloning a website will make a direct copy of the website, including all existing files and databases.

Email accounts will not be cloned.

  1. Login to your cp.purely.website account.
  2. Using the left menu, click Websites, then click on the website you want to clone.
  3. Next to the screenshot of the website you should see a clone button, click this and choose either, Clone to existing site or to a new website.

Cloning to an existing website

If you choose to clone to an existing website you will be presented with a few options, the destination site, any files you wish to exclude, to include the database, delete the source files and if it is a WordPress website to find and replace the old domain name with the new one in the database.

Cloning to a new website

Cloning to a new website is much simpler, it just offers the option to select the package and new domain and again if the website is WordPress based it will perform a find and replace the old domain name with the new one in the database.

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