Title: Multisite development domain changes — go-live process?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Multisite development domain changes — go-live process?

 *  [bdd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bws-online/)
 * (@bws-online)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-development-domain-changes-go-live-process/)
 * I’m currently developing a multisite (using subdomains) for a client, and the
   files are on my hosting account. So the addresses right now are something like
   [http://www.clientdomain.mydomain.com](http://www.clientdomain.mydomain.com) (
   for the main site) and then subdomain1.clientdomain.mydomain.com and subdomain2.
   clientdomain.mydomain.com for the subdomain sites within the network.
 * I have access to the hosting location where the new multisite will live. The 
   client has a site currently posted at [http://www.clientdomain.com](http://www.clientdomain.com),
   though, so their tech person purchased [http://www.clientdomain2.com](http://www.clientdomain2.com)
   for us to use during development, pointing it to the client’s hosting location(
   and then when we go live they’ll just point the actual domain [http://www.clientdomain.com](http://www.clientdomain.com)
   there instead).
 * So my question(s): How do I work with this? I can set up the multisite network
   on [http://www.clientdomain2.com](http://www.clientdomain2.com), but what’s the
   procedure I should follow when we’re ready to go live, since there will be instances
   of [http://www.clientdomain2.com](http://www.clientdomain2.com) throughout the
   site.
 * Do I just pretend I’m moving the site, and follow the second paragraph in these
   instructions (as if I were changing domains), but just skip the part where I 
   move the files?
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite)
 * (And if so, is the part after the third paragraph (“Also manually review all 
   the wp_x_options tables and look for ‘three fields and edit as needed:”) for 
   me, too, or is that just for when you’re moving from one folder to another?)
 * Thank you so much for any advice/guidance on this.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-development-domain-changes-go-live-process/#post-3207640)
 * > Do I just pretend I’m moving the site, and follow the second paragraph in these
   > instructions (as if I were changing domains), but just skip the part where 
   > I move the files?
   >  [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite)
 * That’s what I would do, honestly. If you’re just changing the domain name, you
   should be able to JUST to that search/replace script and be done.
 *  Thread Starter [bdd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bws-online/)
 * (@bws-online)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-development-domain-changes-go-live-process/#post-3207643)
 * Thanks Mika — I’ll do a test run and see how it goes.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘Multisite development domain changes — go-live process?’ is closed to
new replies.

## Tags

 * [moving multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/moving-multisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [bdd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bws-online/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-development-domain-changes-go-live-process/#post-3207643)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics