Pushing Staging Site Live

  • I’m new to “pushing” a staging site live and not sure how this could impact my main production site. If I have a production site (say mysite.com) and I wish to create / push a staging site live for a client (I name it “client site”), thus having a url called mysite.com/clientsite, will pushing the staging site overwrite mysite.com or will it only overwrite the mysite.com/clientsite? The plan would be to migrate it over to the client’s host once ready.
    I’ve done a back up, but my concern is how pushing the staging site (using WWP Staging Pro) will affect my main production site (mysite.com). Will my menus be overwritten, for example?

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  • As WWP Staging Pro is a premium plugin, you are best to ask directly through their support channels for the support you have paid for.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Like Fullworks mentioned, we cannot comment on the operation of the staging pro plugin. But generally speaking, a staging site is normally publicly accessible if one has the correct URL. What is not normally accessible to others is a local development site, which when ready for client review does need to be migrated to a publicly accessible location, what I would refer to as the staging site.

    Anyway, if a site’s root folder is a new sub-folder on the production server, /clientsite/ in your example, the files there will not conflict with the existing production site in the server’s public root. What you need to watch out for is DB conflicts, especially if the production site is also a WP site. Either use a different DB or use a unique table prefix which does not conflict with the production tables.

    Be aware that any time you move a WP site, unless the domain/path is exactly the same, there are many domain URL references in the DB that need to be updated. Migration plugins generally do this for you. Your staging plugin might do so, IDK. This can be done manually with the proper tools. Don’t just do a global UPDATE query as that can corrupt serialized data. Use a tool that can properly deal with serialized data, the Better Search and Replace plugin is one of a few proper tools that can do so.

    Thread Starter grafxguy1

    (@grafxguy1)

    Thanks for your reply and feedback – I’ll see if I can go through their channels. As per you above point, it seems like the directory reads like it’s in a sub-folder ….mysite.com/public/clientsite/, but I’ll double check with their support team before taking action. Thanks again!

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