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I am new to Magento. I'm basically doing archaeology on an old site that was abandoned by a former engineer. I'm having the following problems:

  1. I can't find the "main" configuration file for Magento. In particular I'd like to find the database connection string so I can locate the database (both in my dev and prod environments). Where is the main config located?

  2. I don't have any dev environment that is in sync with the production code. I would like to copy everything from the production site (everything is still running there, and I'm afraid to touch anything) and create a fresh dev environment. What settings do I need to make sure I change to ensure the dev environment is isolated from the production environment? (e.g. I don't want to have the dev environment accidentally pointing to the production database, or anything else it shouldn't).

skb
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  1. Magento main config file locate at app/etc/local.xml you can see database related details in same file

  2. For creating dev environment - copy all product code on dev server and copy database to dev server, edit app/etc/local.xml add dev server database details and open database goto core_config_data table and change path value for web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url from production url to dev url that's it

Vaibhav Ahalpara
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  • I recommend checking out this answer: http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/35087/how-can-we-stop-a-magento-site-clone-from-redirecting-back-to-live-site as it has a much more comprehensive list of things that are required. – skb Feb 09 '17 at 15:58