I own a license for IPS and have it installed on a Production Server.

I wanted to try my hand at some plugin development, so I want to install a copy of IPS locally in development mode.

So I installed XAMPP on my computer and put in a copy of IPS, added the development tools files and added my constants.php defining IN_DEV true.

The installer requests my license key, which I enter, but then tells me an installation is already activated.

I think it's a reasonable expectation that I should not need to purchase another license just to do some plugin development - Is there something I am missing here?

 

When entering your key, did you add -TESTINSTALL at the end of the license number?

See the following for details:

 

you should add  -TESTINSTALL at the end of license key !

That's the ticket. Thank you 👍