Two subdomain, one for develop: Why I must pay for a clone?

Hi @barbarawebnauta

Thanks for reaching out!

It is possible to test Cookiebot for free, by using domain aliases, as described here;

https://support.cookiebot.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003794134-Why-is-the-cookie-consent-banner-dialog-not-showing-on-my-website-

If your development site is on the same domain as your live production site, e.g.

https://www.mylivesite.com
and
https://www.mylivesite.com/development

and the development site is accessible by the outside world, then Cookiebot will by default treat /development as a live site. How can it tell if this is for development or testing ? Moreover, the only way it can reaching /development, is if you have links to it from your production site.

If you are able to test on localhost, you could add “localhost” as a domain alias, and there would be no issues.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by cookiebot.

My development site is on the same domain as my live production site, yes, it’s what I wrote. It’s an automatic provider clone (with Softaculous).
How can I tell if this is for development or testing? Simple, by automatic redirect in the domain! Or by robots.txt that is already telling GoogleBot not to index the clone site. I thought your “scan” at least read robots.txt… if not the php redirect…
I can’t set aliases, so I’m afraid I can’t use CookieBot. Paying for the double seems excessive to me. Thanks.

@barbarawebnauta

Because your development site is not indexed, it does not mean that visitors cannot access it; our crawler was able to find it.

Since it is accessible it may potentially set tracking cookies in the visitors browser.

You can use .htaccess to restrict access to /development (password protected) then you are fine.