Title: WordPress transfer/testing
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# WordPress transfer/testing

 *  [joshamo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshamo/)
 * (@joshamo)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-transfertesting/)
 * My boss just decided we are going to switch all of our sites to wordpress which
   is awesome, but I have never done much back end stuff with it.
 * This is my main question:
 * Would it be possible/reasonable to build one server as a test bed server that
   we can do development on, test the sites from there, and then transfer them to
   our main web server? Or should we just develop them on the main server and any
   time we need to edit them edit them there and pray?

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 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-transfertesting/#post-5413125)
 * In the morning, if the sun comes up, I will be using temporary URLs to install
   WordPress in two locations and then set those sites up right there where they
   will always remain.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-transfertesting/#post-5413139)
 * Most places will use either two servers (dev and production) or they’ll do development
   on one then go live, and from then on make minimal changes to the live site.
 * Personally I prefer having the 2-server model, but this can bet tricky when you
   try to syncronise databases (if anyone knows a good tool for this I’m sure we’d
   all love to hear about it!). Once the site is done most of the things that you
   do is changing CSS, adding/editing pages and menus, and general house-keeping.
   That’s why a lot of our clients just have a single server once the site is live.
 *  Thread Starter [joshamo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshamo/)
 * (@joshamo)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-transfertesting/#post-5413245)
 * Catacaustic that is what I was hoping to do, I just have no idea how hard it 
   will be to move things from server a to server b.. Is it as simple as move the
   files and go? Or is there a lot more to it..
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-transfertesting/#post-5413249)
 * It’s pretty easy. Transfer the fikes, set up the new database, import the database
   content and update tge `wp-config.php` file with the new db details.
 * Depending in the move you will most likely beed to change the URL in the settings
   but there’s a lot of good search and replace tools and plugins around so that
   part is pretty easy.
 *  Thread Starter [joshamo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshamo/)
 * (@joshamo)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-transfertesting/#post-5413250)
 * Thanks! I guess now I just have to figure out the database stuff
    😛

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 * Last reply from: [joshamo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshamo/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-transfertesting/#post-5413250)
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