dev alongside existing website?

  • For some while I’ve been playing with a multisite network on a local setup using MAMP. Now I’m having doubts about whether it’s best to continue building the website entirely in the local environment and later migrating to the server, or to set up a dev environment on the server. Problem is, the build is to replace an existing website, which needs to stay up till the replacement launches. Either way, I’ll need to test the WordPress multisite on the remote server. Please can anyone advise me what is the best way to proceed? Should I use one of my domain names and set up a separate webhosting account for development? If this were going to be a simple WordPress blog, I’d use the existing website’s account and simply install WordPress into a subfolder and later migrate. But this is a multisite installation, and I want to install using subfolders rather than subdomains.

    And when it comes time to launch the new website, will it be as simple as pointing the existing website’s DNS to the new website, or will I need to do an extensive search and replace for all urls?

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  • I do this:

    https://wpmututorials.com/how-to/using-a-hosts-file/

    Thread Starter daitya

    (@daitya)

    Thank you, Andrea. I’ve since set up a virtual host on my machine using MAMP and VirtualHostX, and successfully installed WordPress 3.1.1. Next step to enable Multisite!

    But what happens when the website is ready to go… after everything checks out okay locally. How to export to live server? Right now I access it at mydomain.dev. Will I need to go through the database tables and replace mydomain.dev with mydomain.com?

    Sorry for the newbie questions. First time ever developing my WordPress multisite network and first time ever developing in a local environment. : )

    Right now I access it at mydomain.dev. Will I need to go through the database tables and replace mydomain.dev with mydomain.com?

    yep. then you replace it on the live site.

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