Ques/Help Best way to create a test/staging instance?

[smallwheels]

I would like to create a test and staging instance of my forum to be able to test new versions, to try out addons, to play with layouts and configuration options w/o endangering "the real thing". I understand that a test instance is covered by the license and that it should obviously not be publicly reacheable, so protected by .htaccess. So far so good. My question is: How to create such an instance in an easy, reliable and replicatable way?

Obviously I could simply install a fresh copy of...

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