Title: Testing Newer WordPress on Different Server
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Testing Newer WordPress on Different Server

 *  [b-rad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/b-rad/)
 * (@b-rad)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-newer-wordpress-on-different-server/)
 * We’re running WP 3.1.3 and are now able to upgrade to 3.5 (finally). The issue
   is that we need to test the new version on a separate development server, and
   from what I’ve seen if I copy the database to our development server, the posts
   and links will be relative to our production 3.1.3 server. Is there some way 
   I can copy our current 3.1.3 installation to our development server and have 
   the posts, pages, etc. function properly? Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [b-rad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/b-rad/)
 * (@b-rad)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-newer-wordpress-on-different-server/#post-3371227)
 * bump
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-newer-wordpress-on-different-server/#post-3371228)
 * >  Is there some way I can copy our current 3.1.3 installation to our development
   > server and have the posts, pages, etc. function properly?
 * Search and replace on the database. Replace all the old location domain name 
   in the urls with the new location name.
    [ Moving WordPress [ how to search and
   replace in mysql database [ Search and Replace plugin [ More possible plugin 
   based solutions if you aren’t comfortable with with phpMyAdmin or MySQL administration
   tools.
 *  Thread Starter [b-rad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/b-rad/)
 * (@b-rad)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-newer-wordpress-on-different-server/#post-3371229)
 * Thanks ClaytonJames, I’ll give that a shot. Appreciated.

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