Site Ground staging is different from WP Engine. For WP Engine, the staging environment is in your account.
For Site Ground, staging is cPanel -> WordPress Tools -> Staging.
Here are the steps:
1. Login to SiteGround.
https://ua.siteground.com/login.htm
2. Click My Accounts.
https://ua.siteground.com/my_account.htm
3. Click red Go to cPanel.
4. Search for Staging. Click Staging under WordPress Tools.
5. Click green Create Staging Copy.
If you can’t access your staging site:
The staging copy was created with the URL: http://staging1.domain.com/ and since an A record was not created to point to it, it is virtually unreachable to the world.
But since you and I know the IP where it resides, we can ‘tell’ our local machines where to find it.
That can be achieved by adding the following in your hosts file:
Code:
xxx.xx.xxx.xxx staging1.domain.com
(replace xxx with IP; replace domain.com with the domain that your broken staging site points to)
You can find out how to locate your hosts file in this article:
https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_use_the_hosts_file/
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