Creating a WordPress Staging Site on GoDaddy
These instructions for creating a WordPress Staging Site on GoDaddy assume that you have an existing WordPress website and you want to create a copy which will be used for testing an upgrade, testing a new plugin, etc.
There are plugins that can help duplicate a WordPress site, but this is how I prefer to do it:
- Create a subdomain, ex: testing
- The document root testing.mydomain.com will be created.
- Create a new database and database user; add the user to the database
- Export existing database (since you’re exporting it to your PC, don’t delete it – it can be your backup copy if needed during testing)
- Import that database into the new empty database
- Zip/compress the live site files
- Move zip to testing domain folder and extract files
- Edit wp-config to put in database name, user, password
- Edit database to change site-url and home to testing.mydomain.com
- Use plugin Go Live Update URLS to replace old url with new one: replace https://www.mysite.orghttps://testing.mysite.org
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