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Production environment is, usually, online (not local on your machine) and used as the official result, the one accepted by the client (or by you, who knows); the website that will be used by real visitors, for example.
Development environment is, like the name tell it, for developing a solution, a website... it could be online or local. It is where your "work-in-progress" is done. AMPPS is for that purpose, usually installed on your local machine.
You can specify any domain that you want, use something unique since it would overpass an existing domain name (e.g. google.com). For example, you could use "local.mysite" and then you will be able to reach that local website with "http://local.mysite". But it could be anything else: http://mywebsite, http://an-unique-name.com, etc.
Regarding your existing WordPress website, it is possible to transfer the eCommerce capability, depending on what it is inside your local WordPress installation; is it an extension, a theme, both? Plugins (extensions) and Themes can be transferred manually with FTP (or downloaded directly on your online WordPress installation via the admin panel). When it is more the options, configs, posts, etc. that you want to transfer, then it depends on something else since the data are located in the database. eCommerce plugins usually offers export/import options.
Regarding AMPPS and the domain name, the directory is where you have or you want to put the files on your computer for the WordPress installation. It can be (almost) anywhere, but the best options if you are not sure is to use the "www" directory located in the AMPPS application (/Applications/AMPPS/www/) and to create a new directory inside it (e.g. /Applications/AMPPS/www/mysite).
So, in resume, creating a local installation of WordPress with AMPPS is very simple:
1) You can create a domain (which is, from my point of view, the best option), just navigate to Add New Domain: http://localhost/ampps/index.php?act=ampps_domainadd
2) Enter the domain: local.mysite (or anything you want)
3) Leave the others options as they are; the "local.mysite" folder will be automatically created for you (/Applications/AMPPS/www/local.mysite)
4) Navigate to the WordPress installation: http://localhost/ampps/index.php?act=software&soft=26 and click "Installation"
5) Choose the recently created domain from the list (e.g. local.mysite)
6) Change the options if you need to and click "Installation"
7) Follow the links that will be displayed when the WordPress installation succeeded
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