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mpdeneen · 2012-06-21, 06:10:41

I want to switch my site from an html site, built with Frontpage and looks it, to a CMS site using getsimple. Question: can I play with it & build it, test it, etc, while my original site goes along as before? In other words, is there a "go live" switch on these things?

**JWH_Matthew** · 2012-06-21, 06:51:52

mpdeneen Wrote:I want to switch my site from an html site, built with Frontpage and looks it, to a CMS site using getsimple. Question: can I play with it & build it, test it, etc, while my original site goes along as before? In other words, is there a "go live" switch on these things?

Just build your site in a sub directory

example:

Code:
www.mysite.com/testing/

then when your done migrate it to your home directory.

**Timbow** · 2012-06-21, 07:34:18

OWS_Matthew Wrote:
mpdeneen Wrote:I want to switch my site from an html site, built with Frontpage and looks it, to a CMS site using getsimple. Question: can I play with it & build it, test it, etc, while my original site goes along as before? In other words, is there a "go live" switch on these things?

Just build your site in a sub directory

Or you can build it locally on your desktop by creating the right environment with PHP and apache. Easy with windows, don't know about other OSs.

**JWH_Matthew** · 2012-06-21, 10:11:19

easy with Mac OS as well, just install mamp.

**Timbow** · 2012-06-26, 19:09:24

OWS_Matthew Wrote:easy with Mac OS as well, just install mamp.

That's good. it was a bit trickier on Linux last time I looked, but doable.

polyfragmented · 2012-06-27, 03:07:27

The tip with the sub-directory is good; if you have access to a webspace config panel, you could probably make the domain point directly to the sub-dir. There would be no real migration necessary then.

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