{"id":1888,"date":"2018-12-31T05:24:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T05:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1888"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:43:23","slug":"clone","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/docs\/enduser\/miscellaneous\/clone\/","title":{"rendered":"Clone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This guide will help you how to Clone an installation. You can clone an installation to test the upgrades or the changes before applying it to the main installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-info wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>\u00a0: Clone functionality is available for several scripts but not all. We will be adding it to more scripts soon.\u00a0<br><strong>NOTE<\/strong>\u00a0: Clone has been added in Softaculous 4.2.8\u00a0<br>Clone is supported for the scripts listed on the following page\u00a0:\u00a0<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/docs\/Clone_Scripts\">http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/docs\/Clone_Scripts<\/a>\u00a0<br><strong>NOTE<\/strong>\u00a0: If you have your site already installed manually. You will have to import it to Softaculous. Here is the guide\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/softaculous.com\/docs\/How_to_Import_an_Installation\">How_to_Import_an_Installation<\/a><br><strong>NOTE<\/strong>\u00a0: WordPress Multi-Site installation cloning is not supported for now.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will be taking an example of a&nbsp;<strong>WordPress<\/strong>&nbsp;installation. We will clone the installation to a sub directory&nbsp;<strong>clone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) Login to Panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to your panel (e.g. cPanel&#8217;s url will be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/domain.com:2083\/\">https:\/\/domain.com:2083<\/a>) and login with your details.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There click on the Softaculous Icon or Link.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Softaculous Enduser Panel will be displayed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to all installations page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_1.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_1-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_1-768x369.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2) Choose the installation you want to Clone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click on the\u00a0<strong>Clone<\/strong>\u00a0icon next to the installation you wish to clone.\u00a0<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_2.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_2-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_2-768x251.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Clone page will appear with the current installation details and a form to fill in the details for the cloned installation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3) Fill in the Clone Installation Details<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fill in the clone installation details i.e. Choose domain, Directory, Database name, etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the\u00a0<strong>Clone Installation<\/strong>\u00a0button and this should do the trick. The time taken may vary in accordance to size of your installation, So please be patient.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That&#8217;s it\u00a0!! You can now use this cloned installation to test the updates or any other changes you may want to test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-info wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>&nbsp;: You will receive the clone installation details via email (if the emails are enabled).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-info wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>&nbsp;: The admin\/user account login details will be the same as the source installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"933\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_3-933x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_3-933x1024.png 933w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_3-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_3-768x843.png 768w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/clone_3.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":1682,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","docs_category":[],"class_list":["post-1888","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1888\/revisions\/6943"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"docs_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs_category?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}