Title: WordPress Test site
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Test site

 *  [mpp3920](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpp3920/)
 * (@mpp3920)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-test-site/)
 * I currently work for a small group at my college that runs a website for my major.
   We use a wordpress site and are looking to create a test site, host the same 
   wordpress site on an unsearchable domain. I’m asking how you would go about hosing
   the same site again, but with a different domain/server. Copy/Pasting all the
   wordpress site files into the new server was our only guess as to how to accomplish
   this, which had failed. What files need to be changed to make this work?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-test-site/#post-1433218)
 * exactly what it is you are doing is not clear to me. Do you want to have a blog
   that is live and search-able and an exact copy that is not but stays synchronized
   with live blog?
    Or do you want to set up just a test site with all of the info
   you presently have on your blog but is not synced – to experiment with?
 *  Thread Starter [mpp3920](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpp3920/)
 * (@mpp3920)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-test-site/#post-1433243)
 * The second one. We just are looking for a test site that is a copy of our current
   site, that we can test on without breaking the main site.
 *  [davidandre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidandre/)
 * (@davidandre)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-test-site/#post-1433247)
 * hi,
    i guess you have to export files from the main site in the back end and 
   then import this file in your test site.put you can copy paste the code for the
   page.php, css… i hope it helps you,
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-test-site/#post-1433274)
 * There are instructions for [Moving WordPress in the Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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