# Duplicating production Mautic on different server with fresh install Mautic

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**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/duplicating-production-mautic-on-different-server-with-fresh-install-mautic/24550 "2022-06-22T20:00:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![techbill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/techbill/32/8325_2.png) [@techbill](https://forum.mautic.org/u/techbill)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/duplicating-production-mautic-on-different-server-with-fresh-install-mautic/24550/1 "2022-06-22T20:00:22Z")

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I did a search in this forum and I don’t see much information about this.

I am wanting to duplicate production Mautic on an another server that have fresh install Mautic on it for testing purpose.

After reviewing the Mautic file system tree, I assume I would just only need to copy the /theme/ folder,  
the /media/ folder, and /app/assets folder over without overwriting any files on the test server.

Also, export and import all of the Mautic database over.

Did I miss anything else to import over?

May I ask out of curiously why is it decided that the /assets/ folder is to be a sub-folder in an /app/ folder? Just curious is all …

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**Author:** ![mzagmajster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/mzagmajster/32/687_2.png) [@mzagmajster](https://forum.mautic.org/u/mzagmajster)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/duplicating-production-mautic-on-different-server-with-fresh-install-mautic/24550/2 "2022-06-23T11:54:22Z")

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You will probably want to copy your app/config/local.php since most if not all values will be the same on the new server.

Just throwing this out there: Since you want to use this for testing purposes why not just archive the entire mautic folder, export the database. Put source and database on different server and you have a testing instance.

Fresh install of source code with the existing database is not really a fresh install, thats all 🙂

As for the assets folder I believe those are mautic core assets, so as such they are in app folder.