09-29-2015, 12:08 PM
Well, the back end to that is that, yes, I have tried setting up a test site. I copied the code from the regular site over to a test domain, modified the configuration as necessary, and any link I click on (which should be valid links) on the test site results in a 404 error. I suspected that this could be resulting from a configuration difference between the test site and the live site, and tried to get Dreamhost to confirm for me that the configuration settings for both sites were the same so I could rule that out, but they would not.
So, I would have to figure out why the test site is failing before I can use it. That is an option, but if I waste a month and a half trying to stand up a test site and find out it was a server configuration issue all along.... Then come Janurary, we're probably going to have a broken site still. It's a gamble I'm taking that fixing the PHP errors on live is probably going to be simpler than trying to debug what seems to be a server configuration problem on the test site, basically.
So, I would have to figure out why the test site is failing before I can use it. That is an option, but if I waste a month and a half trying to stand up a test site and find out it was a server configuration issue all along.... Then come Janurary, we're probably going to have a broken site still. It's a gamble I'm taking that fixing the PHP errors on live is probably going to be simpler than trying to debug what seems to be a server configuration problem on the test site, basically.