Developing a new site - tips

This article is the result of previous problems that customers have had when trying to put their existing site live that was created in for example WAMP or XAMP or another development environment.




It is possible to design and further test this using those development methods and then put it on our server. However, there are often compatibility problems with this. Think of PHP errors or MySQL database problems. This can happen when a website is converted.
There are configuration files created when the settings are specified, this is server dependent. Think of your wp-config.php file or configuration.php within Joomla.




What we therefore recommend is to design this directly live with us, this can be done in a number of ways.
The easiest way is to create a subdomain and then develop it. This way, any existing site can also continue to run without problems.
How to create a subdomain is explained in the following article. The database can be created in the normal way in the control panel. The database data can even be left exactly the same when you move to your main domain. This will in fact be accessible from your subdomains and your main domain.
As you can see below a test site on a subdomain is installed as a test environment.




If you do not want your site to be visible yet you can also make it only accessible to you in the following way. This way you keep the development environment a secret for your site visitors.

When you are ready to have your site live then you already know that it works on our servers and it is a simple process of transferring the website files. Not even the database data needs to be changed.
We hope this gives you some more information on where to start.

If you have any further questions you can always see if there is someone on the online chat.
Or you can create a ticket for this in the customer panel.