How to Create a Staging Site for Your Live Site?

Let’s get started!

• Go to your Dashboard.
  

• Select your active hosting plan in the product/service section.
• On the next page, you can see a section called “Manage Account”. In that select ‘WordPress Manager’.
  

• On this page, all your WordPress installations will be listed.
  

• Click, Edit.
• In the ‘Installation Details’ page under ‘actions’ you can find an option called “Staging”
  

• Click "Staging" to create one
  

• In this section, provide the following details:
• Protocol: Need to select https:// or https://www
• Domain: Need to enter the subdomain in which you want to create the staging.
• • Note: Provide a domain to install the application. If the provided domain does not exist yet, it will be automatically created.
• Directory: Need to enter the Directory in which you want to install the WordPress installation.
• • Note: The directory is relative to your domain and should not exist. To install WordPress at https://mydomain/dir/ just type dir. Leave the field empty if you wish your WordPress to be installed in https://mydomain/ only.
• Database: Need to type the name of the database to be created for the installation.
• After entering the details, Click 'confirm' to create staging.
• You will get a confirmation, like this:
  

• After that go back to the "WordPress Installations" to view the newly created staging site.
  

• To view the staging site, click the domain name.
• That's it, you have successfully created the staging for your website.

Updated on: 22/11/2023