How to create a staging site on SiteGround

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/