How to run beta version of page on same server?

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I already have a web pages on a server but want to run a beta version of my site that has a lot of changes in it.

I’m not sure how to do that when I already have an index page for my “live” site.

Thanks for any help.

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The easiest way is to make a new folder on your server inside the root
folder for your site (use an FTP application for this) and then upload
your “beta” site into that folder. Freeway writes relative links by
default, so even the Home links will continue to work in such a
setting. When you’re sure it works, you can move everything out into
the main folder and delete the subfolder. So it would be something
like http://example.com/beta/index.html for testing purposes.

Walter

On Jun 29, 2010, at 2:36 PM, SkipII wrote:

I already have a web pages on a server but want to run a beta
version of my site that has a lot of changes in it.

I’m not sure how to do that when I already have an index page for my
“live” site.

Thanks for any help.

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Walter,

Thanks – but the link you included did not work.

Also, I really don’t know the steps involved in what you said. Quite literally, what do you mean “make a new folder in your service inside your root folder…”?

What do I call it. How do I later access that beta site?

All that…

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Freeway can upload a site in one of three ways - File Copy, FTP and mobile me.
Use File Copy to save the site to a folder on your computer.

Then use a ftp client application such as fetch, cyberduck, forklift or any other of your choice along with the ftp settings you use in freeway to connect to your site.
Once at the root folder (it maybe named public or web this will depend on your hosting server setup)
this is where the www.yoursitename.com/index is.

From within the FTP client, and each of the above applications has the ability, create a new folder - name this beta
Click on the new folder and use the FTP Client to put - upload the contents of your site folder that was saved to your computer from Freeway.

You would then type into a browser www.yoursitename.com/beta/ and you should see your new beta site.

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Or in the original FW file create a folder called Beta with no pages in it.

When you upload that site a new folder called Beta will be created on the server.

Then in the upload details of your Beta FW doc set the upload path to www.your site.com/Beta

When you then upload this site/document it will all be uploaded into the Beta folder and be available at www.your site.com/Beta/index.html

David

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