Title: Moving from a local site to a server
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Moving from a local site to a server

 *  [kiusau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiusau/)
 * (@kiusau)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-help-on-wordpress/)
 * Someone keeps deleting my posts.
    No explanation is given.
 * Now, whoever it is may believe that the question has already been asked many 
   times, and just a little searching on the part of the user would answer the question.
   Have you ever thought that the reason that the question has been asked so many
   times is that finding the answer to the question is not as obvious as you think.
 * Please stop deleting my questions. If no one wants to answer them fine, but who
   are you to deny others the opportunity?
 * Truly, I do not get it.

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 *  Thread Starter [kiusau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiusau/)
 * (@kiusau)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-help-on-wordpress/#post-7618324)
 * QUESTION: Is it possible to maintain both a test server on one’s own computer
   and a web server open to the public on a host server? What I would like to be
   able to do is administer my public server from my test server.
 * I have tried everything imaginable and things keep getting worse.
    These are 
   the pages that I have looked at for help.
 * [Moving_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
    [Changing the Site URL](https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-help-on-wordpress/#post-7618337)
 * There’s nothing to get. I’m sorry, but no one is deleting your posts.
 * You may have trouble posting if you are using Safari for example but unless you
   are using multiple accounts your posts are all here.
 * >  QUESTION: Is it possible to maintain both a test server on one’s own computer
   > and a web server open to the public on a host server? What I would like to 
   > be able to do is administer my public server from my test server.
 * Sort of. You build the local copy on your PC or Mac then save the whole works,
   database and files.
 * Then you restore the whole thing onto the real server and follow the steps here.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs)
 * Keep in mind that restoring to the real server will wipe out anything on that
   server.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-help-on-wordpress/#post-7618354)
 * > What I would like to be able to do is administer my public server from my test
   > server.
 * If you want to do all work on the local server and not enter anything on the 
   production server, this might be the tool for you:
 * [https://versionpress.net/](https://versionpress.net/)
 * I have not tried it, but it sure sounds interesting.
 *  Thread Starter [kiusau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiusau/)
 * (@kiusau)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-help-on-wordpress/#post-7618425)
 * Jan: Yes, I have found my posts under my own profile, but they do not appear 
   in the forum area in the expected time slots. I guess the order in the forum 
   is according to the latest update, not according to the date and time of origination.
   Simply, my posts disappeared very quickly, and I could not understand why.
 * I am clearly new to WordPress and do not understand clearly how it works. Up 
   until now I have been doing all of my work on my test server created for the 
   purpose of development. Only recently have I uploaded a copy of my test server
   to my webhost server Lunarpages.
 * Is it even possible to run WordPress under the same account name on two different
   machines with, of course, different real, as opposed to virtual domain names?
 *  Thread Starter [kiusau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiusau/)
 * (@kiusau)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-help-on-wordpress/#post-7618426)
 * Steve: I looked over versionpress, but it does not appear that you can stage 
   in two different places at the same time. All versions appear to be stored in
   the same place. Thank you anyway for the suggestion.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [kiusau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiusau/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-help-on-wordpress/#post-7618426)
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