How to setup a staging instance?

A staging instance can be used to test modifications before they are applied to your actual Matomo instance. For example, you could use a staging instance to test new Matomo updates

The steps to setup a Staging instance are:

• Perform a backup of your production MySQL database
• Set up a new instance to act as your staging environment. You can use the same guides
  for installing your staging instance as you did for your production instance.
• Restore your MySQL backup onto your staging instance.
• Compare both production and staging config/config.ini.php files and make sure that both config files are almost the same.
• The only differences should be:
  • the database connection details dbname, username, password
  • the random generated salt
  • the trusted_hosts[] and instance_id entries