Thread:Skin talk:Chameleon/Installing without shell access

Hello. As the title implies, I do not currently have shell access with my hosting. I am planning to move my wiki to a different hosting company soon, but I do not have the funds to do so at the moment. I could wait until I have the funds, but I really need to start working on a new theme for my wiki right away. I'm using a different bootstrap theme and it's causing loading issues (and so is my host, which is why I'm moving in the first place)

Instead, I want to figure out a different way around this. I could ask my hosting company to try and do this for me, but this is something I want to do myself (installing with composer and all) It's not that I don't trust them, but I kind of don't and I don't want to run into anymore issues.

I DO have a server on a virtual machine. Is it at all possible for me to install the theme on a dummy server and simply move all the information (files and all) to the real server?

I'm still learning my way around the wiki world, so sorry if this sounds like a dumb question. Haha. But I want to do this myself, for learning sake. (and for fun I suppose)