Set up local testing server to emulate Plesk

[knottrydread]

Greetings:

I have begun using Plesk through a Virtual Hosting Server Provider. I am a web developer and went with the plesk solution to make it easy and affordable for me to offer hosting for the sites that I develop.

A problem has arisen in our workflow, however. Previously we would develop on a staging server and then deploy to a live production server. Now, when we are developing, the sites of the staging server does not resemble sites on the Plesk server.

Is their a manual or set of guidelines that outline the changes that Plesk makes to the actual server? I would like to know so that I can emulate these sites on our development server.