By ISN_Canada on

I currently have an online store hosted with a NON-CMS. I'm looking to setup Drupal and Ubercart to create a much better site experience.

Can I setup a Drupal installation without a domain name and add a lot of content/setup the online store and later add my domain name without any weird issues or problems do to switching from servername/asdfasdfasdf to my domain name.com?

I will actually be hosting the install at a different location during the "Transitition."

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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pixelsweatshop’s picture

pixelsweatshop commented

You won't have any issues. Just make you create your site as a subdomain and not in a subfolder.

e.g. dev.your-site.com

not your-site.com/dev

also make sure that you use relative paths and not full URLs when creating internal links.

guitarma’s picture

guitarma commented

I usually use a sub-folder, so I am curious why you use a subdomain over folder?

pixelsweatshop’s picture

pixelsweatshop commented

when you use a subfolder, then your images and URLs will contain the subfolder in it's path. It will then break your images and links when moved to the public root as it will no longer be in a subfolder.

ISN_Canada’s picture

ISN_Canada commented

The site will be on a different host, but like you mentioned if I use relative links etc. I should be fine :)