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Creating staging environment on live server

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  • December 17, 2015 at 2:16 am #174022
    Eduardo
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    With the help of the great minds at teamtreehouse.com, I've embarked on customizing my first Genesis child theme. This is also my first website ever. I'm a newb, but I've done my homework every step of the way.

    I'm currently working on a website for a client who works with a "local guy" for hosting. We had a conversation the other day and I explained to him that I needed to set up a staging environment using a subdomain. My process was heavily based on these two articles ( and ). Both articles recommended I place the WordPress install in a subdomain.

    He shut it down right away and said I was complicating it. After a little bit of hand-holding, I ended up with what I can only describe as a staging environment on a live server. From what I can understand, he ended up advising me to place the WordPress install in a subdirectory of the live server rather than create a subdomain.

    For example, if the live site URL is "site.org", both tutorials I encountered recommended I place the staging site on "staging.site.org". The "local guy" advised me to instead put everything under the URL "site.org/files".

    What's the difference? What are the pros and cons? We ended up creating a new database anyway, so I'm not sure why he shut the process down so quickly.

    I looked at his work. He's not a great designer, but all of his sites worked so he probably knows a thing or two. His portfolio showcased more than 50 sites and they were all WordPress.

    http://trytobosa.org/files/
    December 17, 2015 at 3:47 am #174027
    Eduardo
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    December 17, 2015 at 4:25 am #174032
    Brad Dalton
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    No real difference for staging a site in development but for SEO it might be better using a sub domain like dev.yourdomain.com in a unique installation of WordPress.

    Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

    December 22, 2015 at 8:25 am #174552
    Eduardo
    Member

    Braddalton, thank you for your response. I went ahead and created a new subdomain. I discovered that by using a subfolder on the same domain I could access different pages on the staging site. Instead, I was getting 404 errors on the live site due to page URLs referring to the live site's domain.

    "site.org/files/page-1" returned 404 error.

    "staging.site.org/page-1" returned the correct page.

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