Setup a checkout copy on dev52 home directory

You'll need to edit the .htaccess file after you have checked out a site. MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT EVER COMMIT THIS FILE TO CVS OR SVN AS IT WILL BREAK THE PRODUCTION SITE IF THE FILE IS UPDATED

find the line that has

RewriteBase /www.sitename.com/

change it to have your user name in it like so

RewriteBase /~username/www.sitename.com/

where username = your user name

sitename would be the checkout copy site name

also make sure you comment out the following lines

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.sitename\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.org/$1 [R=301,L]

by putting a # in front of the lines

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.sitename\.org$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.sitename.org/$1 [R=301,L]

Sometimes on dev52 which has the register globals turned off you'll need to turn them back on for your copy to work add these lines

php_flag register_globals on
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on

and lastly you'll more than likely want to get rid of the big orange errors saying that it cannot find devsys2 or something like that so you'll want to run this site in PRODUCTION environment you can switch it by setting up a file in your www directory called SetEnv.php which contains the following:

<?php
$_ENV['GLM_HOST_ID'] = 'PRODUCTION';
?>

MAKE SURE NOTHING IS AFTER THE LAST ?> any blank lines will be output as blank lines and it will cause errors

Then in your .htaccess file you can add in (username is your username)

php_value auto_prepend_file /home/username/www/SetEnv.php

That's all folks!