Posted By: Rishi_P on May 31, 2016, 4:31 am | Post: 1 |
Hi Mattw,
First setup domain with the same name of your website. Follow this guide: http://www.ampps.com/wiki/Adding_a_Domain Next install word press on the domain. Follow this guide: http://ampps.com/wiki/Install_a_Script No, all php versions comes with Ampps. Default php 5.5 starts with Apache you can change it from AMPPS panel --> PHP --> Change PHP version option. >>And if thats the case, do i need to make sure the sql and php numbers match with the ones that are on my hosts live server? No its not needed. |
Posted By: mattw on May 31, 2016, 7:55 am | Post: 2 |
Hey Rishi
Thanks for getting back and thank you for the answers, i will follow that route now. Can i just check a few more points please... I know you said sql and php numbers don't need to match to live server, did you mean just for the live site to the ampps server process? will this not give me issues when i reverse the process and put the new tweaked dev site back from local server to live, if those update numbers don't match please? Also, is there something i need to set up on my macbook that the local server will be placed on, to stop google seeing the ampps server and wordpress installation please? For example i plan to use backup buddys deployment feature, to push and pull my live site to my ampps offline server, tweak it and push it back to the live server. Surely when i do this push back up to live server, the internet has to be able to link to the ampps server, therefore revealing it to bots and google? Will that not then risk google indexing it with possible duplicate content issues being created? this is the feature of back up buddy i plan to use... https://ithemes.com/backupbuddy/wordpress-staging/ if there is a way to tell ampps to not index, or hide it from google be great to know the process please? Be great to know any settings i need to make to my mac laptop or ampps server to make sure that the local server is 100% behind a firewall and non indexable by google please? And do you know if ampps works with back up buddys deployment please? its seems a great way to sync a live site and dev server. And finally i take it that to update any plugins in wordpress, i will need to do that by downloading each plug ins update? As in, the ampps wordpress installation won't be able to do its normal update route because it won't be connected to the internet right? Sorry for novice questions! Thanks Matt |
Posted By: mattw on May 31, 2016, 11:39 am | Post: 3 |
Can i also please check, should i be making the domain on ampps Add on or parked?
Thanks |
Posted By: mattw on June 1, 2016, 4:54 pm | Post: 5 |
just to add, i take it i should of named the domain not identical to the live domain name?
so i should of added something like dev.ghjgjgkh.com? |
Posted By: mattw on June 1, 2016, 7:07 pm | Post: 6 |
ok i have it sorted, i had to flush my DNS and point the browser back to the live host using my mac terminal.
So i'm really nervous about reinstalling AMPPS but if i do, can someone please clarify the setting i should be making when setting up a domain... should it be for example setting the domain as... http://staging.examplesite.com rather than my matching my actual domain... http://example.com ? And if i do this will this cause issues when pushing the site back up to my live site with urls not matching correctly? and then what settings should i be using when doing the wordpress install? should it match my live site or different settings? does it matter? And should i have my computer connected to the internet when i install this domain and wordpress? allowing ampps? allowing updates to stuff like sql etc or plug ins in wordpress? I'm just very wary of screwing up my connection to live server again and also I'm keen that google cannot index this dev version of my site, esp if the domain name / wordpress install matches exactly. thanks Matt |