Title: Setting up development area
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Setting up development area

 *  [jdlejeune](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdlejeune/)
 * (@jdlejeune)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-development-area/)
 * Hello. I’m looking to setup a development area (either [http://www.domain.com/dev](http://www.domain.com/dev)
   or dev.domain.com). I have a copy of the database and an install of wordpress
   under dev, but when I use the front-end it resolves to the main website each 
   time.
 * Do I need to do a mass search and replace in the database and change all [http://www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com)
   to [http://www.domain.com/dev](http://www.domain.com/dev) or something??
 * I’m pretty green with code, but understand the logic a bit.
 * Thanks.
    JD

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 *  [jknauer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jknauer/)
 * (@jknauer)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-development-area/#post-849260)
 * bump… I have the same question.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-development-area/#post-849261)
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-development-area/#post-849262)
 * You have to change the site and blog URL in your dev version to point to … well,
   your dev version 🙂 Treat it like moving your blog.

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-development-area/#post-849262)
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