Staging area

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by David Abrahams, Mar 26, 2018.

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    Hi,
    I am pretty new to web design but am starting to build sites for myself and others.
    I am looking for some help/support/advice on how to best setup staging sites on my existing domain.
    So while I am building these sites I can give the staging address to the person that I am building for so that they can see the progress of the site and suggest changes.

    i.e:
    site1.mydomain.com
    site2.mydomain.com

    I think the correct way to do this is through Cpanel using subdomains plus all my sites will be wordpress sites so I also have to create the databases and users using phpAdmin..... I think...... Can anyway help on the full process and the best way to do this?

    Also once I have finished making the site what is best way to replace the old site.... so I would have to move the new site from my server to their server replacing the old website.

    I hope all of that made sense and I would really appreciate the help.

    Thanks in advance
     
    David Abrahams, Mar 26, 2018 IP
  2. RomanEpo

    RomanEpo Active Member

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    For developing platform 3 ways deployment process 1. Development 2. Staging 3.Production/ Live server.
    Strategic deployment process standard ways by using DevOps platform ,Such as Git ,Jenkins ,etc
     
    RomanEpo, Mar 30, 2018 IP
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    Ant-Lion Well-Known Member

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    Just use subdomains through cpanel and something like Installatron to automate the installation of wordpress.
    For moving the site to the final server just zip the files up, download a database dump, backup the old site and database on the client's server, upload the files and database and adjust the config files to match the new server.
     
    Ant-Lion, Apr 16, 2018 IP