Search and replace installed in a folder inside the website. Doesn't it act in all the site or only in the child of this folder?

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Hi. A question:
I want to try some features in my website, but I don’t want to risk it put it offline, so I’m trying to copy the website (for example; www.abcde.com) in a second URL (www.abcde.com/try1)
If I install “search and replace” in the new URL (…abcde.com/try1/search-and-replace) and I make all the change I need to do. Will the first website’s database be affected? Or only the second website’s database? Thanks a lot

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Hi @balrog ! :wave: Welcome to the Kinsta Community.

If the two sites are separate from each other in MyKinsta, on separate installs, then they will have separate databases. A search-and-replace operation run on one database will not affect the other, and vice-versa.

However, if all you did was copy the WordPress files into a subdirectory, that would copy the wp-config.php information as well, and you’d be connecting to the same database. In that instance, a search-and-replace in MyKinsta would affect that entire database.

Are you able to provide more specific information about the scenario in question? We should be able to help provide more detail in that case.