Moving localhost to hosting without going live for remote pair development

  • Resolved alifhughes

    (@alifhughes)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    I am developing a WordPress site for someone, and I decided to start locally to give me more control over the development as I am doing a custom theme and such.

    I am now at the point where I want the person I am making it for to start adding content, giving me feedback on designs, help me out etc. so I can work more to what he wants and not my pre-conceived ideas.

    However, I don’t want the site to go live whilst I am still changing things per his request.

    What I think I am after is hosting the site, migrating it all to online, but not going ‘live’, so to speak. This is so we can both work on it at the same time, to get it ready to go live.

    Am I right in thinking this? How does one host but not go live?

    Just hoping for general advice as I am still very new to all this.

    Thanks

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=hide+my+site

    RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Other optios are:
    A) Put a password onto the directory at your hosting, your browser will have to provide a username and password to the webserver to access your site, I set my browser to remember the login so it is not at all clumsy or inconvenient.

    B) Keep your website on localhost and get your client to install the remote screen/keyboard/mouse support program “Team Viewer” at http://teamviewer.com/ as a free download, you also install it, while the client is on the phone (or Skype) you start teamviewer on your machine and give your client your ID and password, they can then view and operate the website as a remote session, you see what they see and you get to talk about it too.

    Thread Starter alifhughes

    (@alifhughes)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you both for you answers, I looked into both but I think leejosepho suggestion of that plugin is exactly what I need.

    cldyll

    (@cldyll)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    That’s great! Maybe it helps

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