drakus Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 Is there a staging area where you can edit a website/wp site, etc to check that the additions/editing is working ok before moving it the live site? Thank you Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 Hello! Thanks for considering our hosting -- we do offer a staging area via Softaculous which if you're using WordPress will be very simple to setup: https://blog.hawkhost.com/2018/10/30/creating-a-wordpress-staging-environment-through-softaculous/ Let us know if you have any other questions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgonhawk1 Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 I don't know the ins and outs of Wordpress, since I don't use it, but in general, can't you do this with an addon-domain or a subdomain? To illustrate in more concrete terms, suppose your main domain is under /public_html. You create another directory called, say, /staging (parallel to rather than under /public_html) and replicate the whole thing under there, including, notably, /public_html/cgi-bin. You point your add-on domain or subdomain to /staging as its document-root. Then do all your updates and testing on the files under /staging, and when you're satisfied, copy them over to /public_html? If you're using databases, you'd need testing versions of those too. I assume this Softaculous function takes care of that for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drakus Posted October 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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