How do I keep out public

  • Resolved lotsagarlic

    (@lotsagarlic)


    18 years, 8 months ago

    before I launch while I’m modifying the theme?

    This is my first WordPress installation. Great so far — except — I need to customize the images, colors, and so on and I want to redirect the public to another domain before until I can finish building and clean up the contruction debris.

    I don’t want to be troubleshooting CSS while the site is live.

    I installed WordPREss to root, uploaded an HTML redirect called index.htm, and made that doc the default doc. That allows me to write posts and do a few other things while redirecting the public away. But I can only view the home page of the WordPRess blog, and I can’t even upload images.

    I need to make major changes to the graphic and css aspects of the theme (I know CSS and HTML, so I can do this), but I need a way to work in peace out of the public eye and test methododically as I go.

    Also, it’s not fair to my client to have a half-finished “under construction” site plainly in view.

    Do I need to uninstall and reinstall to a subdirectory, such as /blog?

    Thanks.

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  • dreamhost is pretty good. i had also recommend you to check out HostGator and A Small Orange.

    Thread Starter lotsagarlic

    (@lotsagarlic)

    Thanks very much. To be fair, ANHosting has been great otherwise. Very responsive and competent support staff. Can usually get an email back in less than an hour no matter when you write. Very nice online tutorials and various utilities and extras. If they ran phpsuexec, I would be staying with them.

    They offer it for their dedicated servers but not for shared. They say that some php scripts can’t run under phpsuexec and on a shared server, customers complain. I wonder why some other ISPs don’t seem to have the same problem. Oh, well. Next time I’ll know.

    Perhaps they would enable phpsuexec for you? (with the understanding that you would not complain to them if things weren’t working — other users would not be able to run it, unless they specifically enabled it)

    Thread Starter lotsagarlic

    (@lotsagarlic)

    What a great idea. I’ll ask.

    Thread Starter lotsagarlic

    (@lotsagarlic)

    Wait … I was starting to write them with this suggestion, when I realized … I don’t want to be sharing a server with a lot of OTHER hosting accounts that are vulnerable to all kinds of attacks … no, I’m afraid that if I don’t move, I will end up regretting it.

    Security breaches, when they occur, are a far bigger headache than moving to a new ISP. I will tell this ISP they were great otherwise and to consider offering servers that run phpsuexec.

    Thread Starter lotsagarlic

    (@lotsagarlic)

    Thanks very much for your helpful comments, everyone.

    good point ?? And glad i could help!

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