{"id":3963,"date":"2022-04-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canspace.ca\/blog\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2022-04-27T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:22:56","slug":"how-to-make-a-staging-website-by-cloning-your-site-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canspace.ca\/blog\/website-development\/how-to-make-a-staging-website-by-cloning-your-site-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Staging Website by Cloning Your Site in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once your website gets to a certain level of success, you may find that you also have to professionalize how you administer your site. One key component to a smoothly running website is a staging site \u2014 an exact copy of your site in a \u201csandbox\u201d environment that only you can see \u2014 where you can try new updates, designs, and test features before they are released to the \u201clive\u201d version of your site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a number of obvious benefits to this. And, it also happens to be quite easy to do using cPanel, which comes with every website hosted by us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the instructions on how to create a copy of your site, to use as a staging site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using WordPress Toolkit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Open WordPress Toolkit in cPanel and expand the detail view for the site you would like to clone.\u00a0<\/li>
  2. Click the Clone tool in the site\u2019s dashboard. When the clone tool opens, select a subdomain and a path to clone the site to. If they don\u2019t exist, WordPress Toolkit will create them for you.\u00a0<\/li>
  3. When you\u2019re finished, click Start at the bottom of the page. WordPress Toolkit automatically copies the site, creates a new database and database user, configures the site to use the database, and creates a new subdomain if necessary. Once it\u2019s done, you access the cloned site as usual.\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Using cPanel in General<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    To clone a site, you\u2019ll need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Create a new folder and copy the site\u2019s files into it.\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    1. Open File Manager, which you can open from the Files section of cPanel\u2019s main page menu.<\/li>
    2. Select the directory containing the WordPress site you want to clone. <\/li>
    3. Click Copy in the toolbar and enter a name for the new directory. To keep things simple, we\u2019ll clone the site into a directory under public_html so that you can access it from a URL such as \u201cexample.com\/wordpress_two.\u201d <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Export the original site\u2019s database, create a new database for the clone, and import the data into it.\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      1. Open MySQL Databases, which you\u2019ll find under Databases the main page menu. <\/li>
      2. Enter a name for the new database under Create New Database and click the Create Database button. <\/li>
      3. Next, we export the original database.  We\u2019ll use phpMyAdmin, which is also under Databases in the cPanel menu: