Actually, a quick followup
I changed the prefix in the new install (to ‘test’) and it worked (in that it let me run admin.php and set things up). However, none of the data from the old blog was brought over or incorporated into the new build. Or at least it wasn’t accessed with the new blog.
I still can’t find an easy explanation in the docs or codex of how to essentially duplicate all of the data from an old blog database so taht I can then use it to test another site build.
Or, wait, are you saying that I can access the original blog with a different prefix and it will let me use the blog data without changing the information in the other blog? Does that question make sense?
Basically, here’s what I did. My original blog uses a DB called wordpress. I had my host duplicate that DB and call it wordpress2. I installed WP in a new directory and set config php to use wordpress2 with a prefix of test. It let me run install.php but didn’t use any of the old data.
Can I tell the new install to simply use the blog data from wordpress but with the prefix test? Both blogs use teh same post data but different themes and such? I’m not sure I’m making sense.
Thanks for any help you can provide
Lyle