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I want to setup a staging site on our server. We have a website mydomain.com and I want to make a sub-domain called dev.mydomain.com so we can develop the website without hindering the live version. The website is a WordPress website and I have copied the database and linked to the database via the wp-config file. I created a new user for the development database and linked this to the database via the wp-config file also. I can see the website is now reading from the copied database as when I preview on Plesk I can see the dev.mydomain.com. But I cant access it through my internet browser. It says it cannot be found. Do I need to make some DNS settings to point to this sub domain? Also when I navigate through the site via the preview button in Plesk the homepage is dev.mydomain.com but when I navigate further in it is now only mydomain.com. I am not sure what I have done wrong.
I also have another question but this is more Wordpress related but I believe someone here must have created a sub domain to develop a WordPress site. The question is when I copy the database. Normally I can edit the site via mydomain.com/wp-admin. If i could access my site and went to dev.mydomain.com/wp-admin, will the copy have copied the WordPress user details also? Or does it create a new user so that you can amend dev.mydomain.com without affecting mydomain.com. E.g. mydomain.com uses the user admin and password 123 for example, when I then go dev.mydomain.com can I use admin and 123 again as the admin user on dev.mydomain.com points to the dev. database and the mydomain.com admin user only points to the mydomain.com database. Sorry if this should be asked elsewhere but just thought that someone might know.
I hope this is clear enough and if ive missed anything then please say.
Many thanks in advance,
David
I want to setup a staging site on our server. We have a website mydomain.com and I want to make a sub-domain called dev.mydomain.com so we can develop the website without hindering the live version. The website is a WordPress website and I have copied the database and linked to the database via the wp-config file. I created a new user for the development database and linked this to the database via the wp-config file also. I can see the website is now reading from the copied database as when I preview on Plesk I can see the dev.mydomain.com. But I cant access it through my internet browser. It says it cannot be found. Do I need to make some DNS settings to point to this sub domain? Also when I navigate through the site via the preview button in Plesk the homepage is dev.mydomain.com but when I navigate further in it is now only mydomain.com. I am not sure what I have done wrong.
I also have another question but this is more Wordpress related but I believe someone here must have created a sub domain to develop a WordPress site. The question is when I copy the database. Normally I can edit the site via mydomain.com/wp-admin. If i could access my site and went to dev.mydomain.com/wp-admin, will the copy have copied the WordPress user details also? Or does it create a new user so that you can amend dev.mydomain.com without affecting mydomain.com. E.g. mydomain.com uses the user admin and password 123 for example, when I then go dev.mydomain.com can I use admin and 123 again as the admin user on dev.mydomain.com points to the dev. database and the mydomain.com admin user only points to the mydomain.com database. Sorry if this should be asked elsewhere but just thought that someone might know.
I hope this is clear enough and if ive missed anything then please say.
Many thanks in advance,
David
