Title: Hostgator install & development
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Hostgator install & development

 *  [paross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paross/)
 * (@paross)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hostgator-install-development/)
 * Hostgator provides the opportunity to set a site up before the URL goes live.
   We can work on the site at an address like: [http://74.52.60.82/~username](http://74.52.60.82/~username).
 * Can I install WordPress there, prior to going live with the URL? Do I then have
   to go back in and change the WordPress address and site address to the URL once
   the site is live?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hostgator-install-development/#post-1616150)
 * > Can I install WordPress there, prior to going live with the URL?
 * Yes 🙂 But there’s a catch.
 * > Do I then have to go back in and change the WordPress address and site address
   > to the URL once the site is live?
 * There’s the catch. So long as, even AFTER the URL goes live, you can access it
   at the other address, you’re fine. All you’d do is log in at that address, change
   the URLs, hit save, and don’t panic when it looks like you broke your site. Just
   go back to it at the new URL and you should be right as rain.
 *  Thread Starter [paross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paross/)
 * (@paross)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hostgator-install-development/#post-1616155)
 * That’s what I thought. Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [paross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paross/)
 * (@paross)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hostgator-install-development/#post-1616158)
 * Actually, it didn’t work. Probably because I used Fantastico, which used the 
   projected URL rather than the IP address for the install. So, when I try to log
   in, it tries to go the to the projected URL.
 * Live and learn.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hostgator-install-development/#post-1616158)
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