Dev Site Setup – processes.camna.com

Live Domain

Dev Domain

Server

Options

Exclude uploads

Setup HTTP Auth

Discourage search engines

Disable emails

See if there’s an existing dev site we can reuse. If not, see if there’s an old dev site for the site we can remove before creating a new one.

Check if there’s an existing dev site done

Connect to the source server and run this command to find current disk usage for the website files:

du -sh /var/www/

Run this command to find the disk usage for the database:

du -sh /var/lib/mysql/

Check if there’s an existing dev site we can reuse (or remove) before creating a new one

Check space needs of files AND database on source server

Check space available on destination server – needs to be files + 2 x DB + some extra space

Add site to server

Migrate site to server (preferably using MainWP, Blogvault or All-in-one Migration also an option) EXCLUDING uploads