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Firstly, please pardon my naivety here, I’ve not been able to find a related thread in relation to my query so any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

We are embarking on a new EE website which at this time just has as a coming soon page live online. Whilst the site is in development we only want the existing coming soon page to be visible (to users & search spiders).

Please can anyone suggest the best process to setup a sanbox/development area.

In an ideal world we would like to have a live platform and a development platform so we can control what is visible. Is there any way to achieve this within EE or would this have to be kept within a local apache sever (such as XAMPP)?

Thanks again for any assistance.

Hi Mailvivo,

One of the easiest ways of accomplishing this would be to install the site on the live server and then ‘turn the site off’ in the config, which will allow you to use the offline_template to display the coming soon page for everyone who is not logged in as SuperAdmin (which will be everyone apart from you!)

There are other ways of doing it, but this would be the easiest by far… you can then just turn the site on when you’re ready and it’ll just work.

Regards,

Carl

Hi Carl,

Thank you for the suggestion, certainly sounds simple enough! I shall have a read up on the relevant documentation.

Once again, thanks for taking the time to reply!

Happy New Year.

George

Hi there,

I have looked into the suggestion from Carl & this certainly would cover our requirement whilst we only have the ‘coming soon’ page live.

Just looking forward though, we couldn’t this option once the site was live & wanted to add/amend it. You mentioned there are other (less simple) ways of achieving this, please could you clarify the other routes?

Once again, thanks for any advice.

Kind regards,
George

I’m adding EE to a current HTML site, would this “turning the site off” work best for my situation too?  Or should I develop on a subdomain like beta.sitename.com and then move the website after I’m finished?  I’ve built EE sites before but haven’t added EE to a current live site.