Pause your Website for Copy Live to Test

If a Copy Live to Test needs to be run for Khaos Control the staging site DLL and Website will need to be paused for the duration to prevent it from accessing Khaos Control and interrupting the Copy Live to Test.
1. Log into the web server.

2. Run the "Pause_Staging_Site.ps1" script on the desktop (or C:\ Drive), this will start the pause site script as an administrator, so you may be asked to confirm this, in which case click "Yes".


3. The script will ask you to confirm that you want to pause the staging site DLL and Website, type "Y" and press enter.

4. Once the staging site DLL and Website have been paused, run Task Manager and go to the "Details" tab.

5. Check for any "w3wp.exe" process with "staging" in the name, such as "kcw.staging.dll", or similar, and end the process if the script hasn't done so already.


6. Preform the Copy Live to Test for Khaos Control.

7. Once this is complete go back to the script, it should be asking you to confirm that you want to un-pause the staging site DLL and website, type "Y" and press enter.

8. The staging site should now be running again.

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