To test new Plugins on your installation before making them public, you may want to use one of these two approaches:
- **Method 1:** Safely test on-the-fly by creating separate Production and Test branches in your live TWiki installation.
- - **Duplicate** the `twiki/bin` and `twiki/lib` directories for the Test version, adjusting the paths in the new `lib/TWiki.cfg`, the `twiki/data`; the `twiki/templates` and `twiki/pub` directories are shared.
+ - **Duplicate** the `twiki/bin` and `twiki/lib` directories for the Test version, and adjust the paths in the new `lib/TWiki.cfg`. The following directories are shared: `twiki/data`, `twiki/templates` and `twiki/pub`.
- **Test** Plugins and other new features in the Test installation until you're satisfied.
- %X% If you modify topics using the new features, live users will likely see unfamiliar new META tags showing up on their pages - to avoid this, create and edit test-only topics to try out new features.
- **Copy** the modified files to the Production installation. You can update a TWiki installation live and users won't even notice.