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How to develop a word press on a development server?

by Morphius
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Hi guys,

How do I set a word press on a development server. I need to build a complete site on my temp domain. Once everything is done, I need to move it to production server and go live on the real domain that it meant to be on.
How do you do it? Any issues with transferring to the live domain?

Please explain this to me.


Thanks.
#develop #development #press #server #word
  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    Why bother? Just build it "live" and tell the search engines not to index it until it is ready. This is built into WordPress.
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    • Profile picture of the author Morphius
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

      Why bother? Just build it "live" and tell the search engines not to index it until it is ready. This is built into WordPress.
      There is a live site that is on that I cannot stop. While developing I don't want to kill the old site. I need to have minimum down time.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Two main ways:

    1. Create a sub-domain for your development site, eg: devel.yoursite.com

    2. Install XAMPP/WordPress locally on your desktop.


    Then when you want to transfer your development version to production, either use manual backup procedure and transfer to the production host, or use software like WP-Twin or the free WP Duplicator plugin to simplify the task for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Morphius
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Two main ways:

      1. Create a sub-domain for your development site, eg: devel.yoursite.com

      2. Install XAMPP/WordPress locally on your desktop.


      Then when you want to transfer your development version to production, either use manual backup procedure and transfer to the production host, or use software like WP-Twin or the free WP Duplicator plugin to simplify the task for you.

      I will look into this. Very interesting. Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author leflerandassociates
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Two main ways:

      1. Create a sub-domain for your development site, eg: devel.yoursite.com

      2. Install XAMPP/WordPress locally on your desktop.


      Then when you want to transfer your development version to production, either use manual backup procedure and transfer to the production host, or use software like WP-Twin or the free WP Duplicator plugin to simplify the task for you.
      Hi Peter,

      Since you seem to have had some success here and WP Twin support didn't know what to do I thought you might. I have XAMPP/WordPress/ioncube/curl installed on localhost and have tried to get WP Twin to clone a blog locally but it does not create the backup file as expected. I have given WP Twin full permissions on a Win 7 64 bit system. The php script launches but nothing happens when I click the clone button. WP Twin Deploy only partially restores a blog if I use a backup generated from a live blog and launch it locally. Any ideas?

      Thanks,

      John
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