Title: Dev Site Question
Last modified: June 5, 2021

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# Dev Site Question

 *  Resolved [emexonline777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emexonline777/)
 * (@emexonline777)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-site-question/)
 * Hello,
 * So I have a dev site that will eventually replace a real site.
 * Right now the dev site url is as such…
 * dev.sitename.org
 * The real site is
 * [http://www.sitename.org](http://www.sitename.org)
 * My server host says that that when we make the dev site replace current site 
   we will not have he www
 * I believe he will do this at his end
 * The site is on a NGINX server
 * What I need to know is – I am still working on the dec site.
 * I want to set up the redirection plugin so that the pages will go from [http://www.sitename.org.html](http://www.sitename.org.html)
   to sitename.org
 * First question – can I do that now or do I have to wait? Or if I do it now will
   it mess up the current site in anyway?
 * Second my web developer friend said I will need to put the urls in a special 
   way for it to work correctly… can you confirm that this is how I should do it?
 * [http://www.sitename.com/hello.html](http://www.sitename.com/hello.html) = > /
   hello

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-site-question/#post-14550500)
 * I don’t really understand the first question. You should add the redirects when
   you need things to be redirected. You can create and then disable them if you
   don’t want them to function.
 * What do you mean by a special way?
 *  Thread Starter [emexonline777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emexonline777/)
 * (@emexonline777)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-site-question/#post-14555957)
 * Thank you, I think I’ve figured it out.

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 * Last reply from: [emexonline777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emexonline777/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dev-site-question/#post-14555957)
 * Status: resolved