Problem with setting up a copy of the forum under different domain

[Metal-R-US]

I have a vBulletin 3.8 live site that I want to copy to a private environment where I will upgrade to 4.0, change skin, check plugins etc. My problem is that I can't stay logged in on the copied site i.e. no cookies are created. Which also means I can't access the Admin CP and when I tried using tools.php I never got passed the login stage there neither.

What I have tried most recently was to change the settings of my live site so that cookies are saved with "/" path and (blank) domain and then copy the site & db again and set it up under the other domain but that has not worked. I have also made sure to disable all hooks in config.php.

Any ideas?

[Lynne]

Did you follow this article in creating the test site - http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/conte...ng-A-Test-Site

[Metal-R-US]

In a moment of clarity I realized that the tools.php fix I tried using was from 3.8.4 not 3.8.5. I reset the cookie path with that and now I can access the Admin Panel. Thanks for your reply.