Testing a copy of my site locally - license warning

[Mario Antunes]

We are still running our live site on the deprecated PHP7.4, also using older IPS 4.7.2.1

Previous attempt to upgrade the live server to PHP8 failed due to customisations/plugins.

Question is about using the license in a test environment.

I made a full copy of our IPS forum site on a local VM (offsite, not accessible from the web). When I log in to the admin CP there it tells me about an invalid lisence ofcourse.

Can I still attempt a PHP/IPS upgrade or will this (now invalid) license stop me from upgrading IPS later?

If all works out on the testbox, I can retrace my steps on the live box. The test VM will be destroyed after that.

[Marc]

You should be using -TESTINSTALL at the end of the license key on your test install. Then you can upgrade from there

[Mario Antunes]

THX, that worked!

[Marc]

No problem at all