Using temporary hosting question

  • youthman

    (@youthman)


    11 years ago

    My customer has an existing Joomla website hosted with BlueHost but will be moving their hosting to Godaddy in 2 weeks. The domain is hosted with Godaddy with the nameservers pointing to BlueHost.

    Typically, if a customer has an exising website,I create a /wordpress/ directory and build the site within it and when we are ready to go live, I use the “Giving WordPress It’s Own Directory” steps.

    Correct me if I’m wrong but the problem is I don’t believe I can setup wordpress on Godaddy hosting if the domain is pointed to the Bluehost Servers. And if I point the nameservers to the new Godaddy hosting, the existing website will be shut down.

    Not sure how best to proceed. Any advice would be much appreciated.

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    don’t believe I can setup wordpress on Godaddy hosting if the domain is pointed to the Bluehost Servers. And if I point the nameservers to the new Godaddy hosting, the existing website will be shut down.

    Correct. Some hosts will provide a temporary domain – so you could ask about that. Or you could register a “throw away” domain name for the development purpose/site. Either of these will necessitate changing the URL’s/file paths when you switch the site over.

    Thread Starter youthman

    (@youthman)

    Thanks for your help. They do have about 20 domains. If I choose to setup the site with another domain during development, where can I find information on how to modify the URL’s / File Paths?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    See Changing_The_Site_URL for details of how to do this correctly.

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