Creating a test VM from Plesk web server

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by KM-Steven, Jul 27, 2012.

  1. KM-Steven

    KM-Steven Bit poster

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    Hi all,
    My situation is that I have Parallels Workstation that I hope to use to store multiple VMs of different OS's with different browser versions to test our company website for browser compatibilities. (99% of customer issues on our website currently can not be replicated by us in the office, so I am hoping that I can use Parallels to allow me to reproduce customers hardware/software setup for testing purposes).

    Seeing as how our web hosts are using Plesk to manage/serve our website it makes me wonder if there is any way to connect my Parallels to Plesk in order to sync an exact replica of the webserver and its settings locally on my computer?

    I get that I can simply install the OS of the web server and copy the website files down - but there is so much more behind the scenes that impacts the website that I want to be sure does not get missed which I am hoping that some kind of built-in compatibility between the products would avoid.

    In addition to the initial VM creation, an ongoing updater would be of use in order to avoid constant recreation of VM's each time our hosts make some kind of tweak/change to configurations etc.

    Thanks in advance,
    Steven
     

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