When I migrated my website between Media Temple servers, I wanted to manually test the site to ensure no server configuration differences between the server were bricking the site. ?The obvious problem I would encounter is that links would
When I migrated my website between Media Temple servers, I wanted to manually test the site to ensure no server configuration differences between the server were bricking the site. ?The obvious problem I would encounter is that links would be broken because the site wasn’t living on my domain name yet. ?I did some research and found a way to easily override the WordPress site and home URLs:
define('WP_HOME', 'http://867.53.0.9');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://867.53.0.9');
Defining these values within the wp-config.php file allows me to override the database values for the home and site-wide domain settings; ?now the site is easily testable before flipping the switch on domain settings!
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