Title: Testing multisite migration
Last modified: August 15, 2019

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# Testing multisite migration

 *  [ed4becky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ed4becky/)
 * (@ed4becky)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-multisite-migration/)
 * I have what seems to be a tedious process for testing my multisite migration:
 * Import sites using All-In_one…
    update DNS name records to point to new IP wait
   a long time wait some more when DNS is updated, test site find a problem need
   to lookup on old site update DNS name records to point to old site …repeat
 * Is there a better way while in this transitional state?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-multisite-migration/#post-11837241)
 * If you can change the A record’s TTL value to a lesser number, it will shorten
   the time required to propagate. Be a good netizen and don’t leave it small forever.
 * Ask your old host if there is a temporary URL you can use to access the old site
   while the appropriate DNS is not available. You’ll need to change the WP home
   and site URL settings, which is elusive in multisite. Use temp-domain.com/wp-
   admin/options.php to get a full alphabetical options list.
 * Realize that URLs embedded in post content still point to the original domain.
   You shouldn’t need to follow those links anyway.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-multisite-migration/#post-11837241)
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