{"id":19024300,"date":"2026-09-19T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/production-database-access-from-the-staging\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:23:09","slug":"production-database-access-from-the-staging","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/production-database-access-from-the-staging\/","title":{"rendered":"Production database access from the staging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m really surprised that Migro is asking for the production database credentials on the staging site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our site is hosted on a server that doesn&#8217;t allow remote access to the database, which is completely standard and secure. On top of that, our staging site is hosted on a local machine connected to the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can&#8217;t use Migro, but more importantly, given these security practices, we strongly advise against using Migro on your websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why did you choose to connect directly to the production database to handle the migration instead of using the WordPress REST APIs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for your clarification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19024300","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-database","topic-tag-setup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19024300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19024300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19024300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}