How to work on WordPress site while domain.com points to another site

  • Resolved Jeffkan1

    (@jeffkan1)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    I have installed WordPress at https://www.newagemh.com. In NetworkSolutions, I have pointed newagemh.com to another website of mine, https://www.newageindustrial.com/Catalog/Material%20Handling.

    Is there a way to have website visitors go to newagemh.com and see the alternate URL, while I work on the WordPress site for newagemh.com?

    When I try to go to newagemh.com/wp-admin, it resolves to https://www.newageindustrial.com/Catalog/Material%20Handling/wp-admin and of course gives an error.

    When I type in the NetworkSolutions host URL that resolves to newagemh.com, I do see the WordPress site in its infancy. When I go <hostURL>/wp-admin, it gives a page not found error.

    I’ve been reading through the WordPress documentation on moving WordPress, and the Settings | General page that has the WordPress Address and the Site Address fields, and the Options table in the database. And I’ve been reading forum entries from people that have made a small mistake and disabled their website, until they fixed it.

    Can I move the WordPress folders and files from the root to root/temp, and go into the options database table and change the siteurl and home fields to “root/temp”?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Your best bet would be to establish a subdomain through your hosting provider’s control panel, like dev.newagemh.com.

    Then, build your site there.

    When you’re ready, move it following this guide: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs

    Thread Starter Jeffkan1

    (@jeffkan1)

    Thanks for the suggestion James! I will give this a try and let you know how it goes.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

    Thread Starter Jeffkan1

    (@jeffkan1)

    Hi James,

    To clarify my steps, I would delete the WordPress installation at newagemh.com, create the subdomain dev.newagemh.com, then create an FTP connection to dev.newagemh.com, and install WordPress there. Correct?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Almost, don’t delete the existing WordPress installation until you’re confident that the move is done.

    Thread Starter Jeffkan1

    (@jeffkan1)

    I didn’t explain it well James, my apologies.

    I have just installed it on newagemh.com a few days ago, so I’m guessing, based on what I’ve done and what I want to do, I can just start fresh by deleting the WordPress installation on newagemh.com, then it will be as if I’m starting where I was about a week ago… no website on newagemh.com.

    I have created dev.newagemh.com, so I’d think I can install WordPress there, create a new MySQL database, then go to dev.newagemh.com/wp-admin, build website there. And do all this while newagemh.com points to another website that’s alive.

    Once website is ready to go live, move it using your link above, from dev.newagemh.com to newagemh.com. Finally, as you said, once I’m confident the move is done completely, I can delete the website from dev.newagemh.com.

    How does that sound?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    That sounds great! ??

    Thread Starter Jeffkan1

    (@jeffkan1)

    Awesome! *popping knuckles* Time to get to it…

    Thanks James.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

    Thread Starter Jeffkan1

    (@jeffkan1)

    Sorry James, me again. I created dev.newagemh.com to point to the same host URL (that I use for FTP) as newagemh.com.

    So in the last step of the installation, when I go to dev.newagemh.com, it just resolves to the website that newagemh.com has “web forwarding” set up.

    Do I need to have dev.newagemh.com point to a different host URL than newagemh.com?

    It looks like, as long as newagemh.com has web forwarding to https://www.newageindustrial.com/Catalog/Material%20Handling, any other domain like dev.newagemh.com that points to the same host URL won’t allow me get to the WordPress /wp-admin login screen.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    No, leave everything in dev.newagemh.com, don’t forward that subdomain anywhere, keep it as its own separate entity.

    When you’re done building your site there, then you move it to the main domain.

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