Develop WP site alongside current site?

  • Resolved greencode

    (@greencode)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    My client has a website already but I am now about to start developing a new site for them. What I usually do is use Private WP to add a simple login to the home page (whilst the site is in development) but what I’d like to do with this site is to have their old site running whilst I develop their new site in the background.

    My question is how do I do this i.e. I’m unable to see what I’m building whilst their other site exists at the same url?

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Install and develop on your local computer (see Installing WordPress) and then move to your client’s host (see Moving WordPress)

    or

    use the technique in Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory then when you go live put the appropriate index.php in you web-root folder.

    Thread Starter greencode

    (@greencode)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for this. If I use the 2nd option (which is the one best suited for me) then surely I won’t be able to test the site as it gets developed because when I choose to view the site it will show me the index.html file currently at root?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Assuming you install WordPress in a folder called blog, you would ‘test’ the site as mydomain.com/blog.

    When ready to go live, ando make WordPress available at http://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to http://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the blog folder)

    <?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

    Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.

    You would also have to delete that index.html file.

    Thread Starter greencode

    (@greencode)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks once again for this – will definitely make things a lot more straight forward when developing sites for clients that already have a site and don’t want to pull that down until their new one is ready.

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