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How To Create A Test WP Site

by zimbizee
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Hi

I often read about web designers that create a website in there own hosting account which is not live, before then transferring it over to the customers hosting account.

How do you do this?

I have a friend who wants me to build him a new site to replace an old one and then redirect the old domain to the new site. How do i build a site in my hosting account without a domain name that i can play around with and once he's happy transfer it. I'm stumped.

Thanks in advance :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    Originally Posted by zimbizee View Post

    Hi

    I often read about web designers that create a website in there own hosting account which is not live, before then transferring it over to the customers hosting account.

    How do you do this?

    I have a friend who wants me to build him a new site to replace an old one and then redirect the old domain to the new site. How do i build a site in my hosting account without a domain name that i can play around with and once he's happy transfer it. I'm stumped.

    Thanks in advance :confused:
    That's a great question - basically, what you do is create a sub-directory on your own site (say, http:// www . name . com / test )

    install Wordpress *there*

    Passwd protect the directory

    Build the site

    Export the MySQL database (ie, site) once the customer is satisfied

    Import said MySQL database on the customer's site to make it live.

    Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex

    should be helpful too!
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    • Profile picture of the author zimbizee
      Thats great

      Many thanks for the heads up
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      • Profile picture of the author aduer
        There is another option that I have used in the past. You can install a web server/php/MySQL on your computer. You can develop your wp blog on it, tested and do what ever you like with it. Once you finish developing and testing it , then transfer it to your friend or install it online for him.

        Installing a web server on your computer is as easy as pushing a button. Just search for WAMP (stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) application. Download it and run it. That is all. WAMP will install all the necessary files to your computer and provide an panel to start/stop the web server.

        Install wp in the /www directory of WAMP or create a new subdirectory under /www.

        It sounds mode complicated that tit is.

        This way you can develop your blog offline without warring.

        Hope this helps

        Armando
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    • Profile picture of the author jt808
      Originally Posted by barbling View Post

      That's a great question - basically, what you do is create a sub-directory on your own site (say, http:// www . name . com / test )

      install Wordpress *there*

      Passwd protect the directory

      Build the site

      Export the MySQL database (ie, site) once the customer is satisfied

      Import said MySQL database on the customer's site to make it live.

      Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex

      should be helpful too!
      Yes, this is a good way to do it. You will just need to make sure that you edit the MySQL database with the new URL before you import it into the new hosting account.
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  • Profile picture of the author imintern
    Another point. If you take the online route as described by barbling you might also want to disallow search engines to index that directory, especially if you have some content in it. However, if you password protect the directory bots are not going to index it anyway, but you may still use robots.txt or if you are using Wordpress simply don't allow search engines to access your content.

    Suggested reading - Blocking Google - Webmaster Tools Help
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    • Profile picture of the author zimbizee
      Thanks for all the advice.
      I have gone the Xamp route and it works great...who knew.

      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author meltingwaves
    Hola,

    Just create everything on a separate part of the domain like domain.com/testpage just so that you can get the looks in order on the same site but it won't show up on the home page and look wonky if things are askew.
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