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1. jewlzmcq
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   We are trying to setup a wordpress network with subdomains - and have a test site set up first. The hosting service sets up test sites as an ip address but that will not work with subdomains. How can we do a new wordpress network on a testsite, using subdomains?

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 4 months ago #

   You could try using you local hosts file to 'cheat' but that wouldn't be visible to everyone else.

3. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 4 months ago #

   or grab a throwaway domain to use.

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Though do grab one the same character length as the 'real' on :) It'll make search/replace so much easier.

5. jewlzmcq
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   cool. We were thinking of using the throwaway domain. I'm glad we're finally getting the hang of this stuff. Thanks!

6. jewlzmcq
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   well - just found out that bluehost will not let us use a throwaway domain name to build the multi-site, then transfer to our real domain name. apparently if you setup an account with them with the domain name you are wanting to use, you must build the site with that name and you can only change to a different domain name, essentially trashing the original domain name. If we had known this from the start we would've setup the account with a throw away domain name to get it built correctly before transfering to the live domain name. Is anyone aware of any other options for building a test multi-site, getting it all working before transferring our content and transfering to our existing live domain name? We do not want to build the testsite on our internal servers because it there are issues with them - that is why we were looking to move to a hosting service. Thanks.

7. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Can you park a domain on your current setup?

8. jewlzmcq
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   @Ipstenu - I'm not sure if you were asking about our internal server or bluehost setup. Internal - no, On bluehost - yes, we can add parked and addon domains. Would an addon domain work? or a parked?

9. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 3 months ago #

   One or the other might work on bluehost, I don't know how they set things up. :/

10. bh_WP_fan
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    If you set it up as a Parked Domain, then it will use the same files as your current primary domain... Which means if you install WordPress on it, it will likely overwrite whatever you have for your primary domain.
    If you set it up as an Addon Domain, it will have it's own folder. It sounds like Addon is what you would want.

    Just remember that, if you build a temporary/test site, you are going to need to do some configuration changes to try to get it to work on the real site when you move it over. As Ipstenu mentioned, make sure your throwaway domain has the same number of characters in it as the real domain that your site will be replaced with.

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