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I have two wordpress site one in main directory (public_html) and another one is in subdirectory staging. I already configure all the settings in subdirectory site with http://example.com/staging but when I load http://example.com/staging it redirect to Page Not Found in main site and not in staging site. I set the .htaccess file in staging subdirectory like this.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /staging/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /staging/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

And this in on the main site in main directory.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Anybody can help me with this issue and my staging site can load properly ? Thank you before.

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There are some things you can try:

  • Check the wp-options table in your staging site database and look for site URL in 2 places. Change it to the correct staging address if already not.
  • Refresh the permalinks of the staging site.

I am guessing this should fix your problem. If not, please share your website address.

P.S. If both the sites (main and stage) have the same content, you might wanna add a robots.txt file in the staging instance just to be safe from being considered as duplicate content.

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  • I already change site URL and home with correct url in wp-options and how to refresh permalinks if I cannot open and login to wordpress dashboard ?
    – Antonio
    Nov 23, 2017 at 6:31
  • And for the main and staging yes it's have same content. How to add robots.txt file in staging ?
    – Antonio
    Nov 23, 2017 at 6:33
  • ok. lets worry about the robots file later. Check your wp-config.php file for correct DB details. What is the result of example.com/staging/wp-login.php? Is it redirecting to the main domain?
    – Sid
    Nov 23, 2017 at 6:36
  • Yes in wp-config.php the DB details is correct. And, example.com/staging/wp-login.php yes it gives me redirecting to the main domain page not found.
    – Antonio
    Nov 23, 2017 at 6:40
  • ok try this one, open the index.php for your staging site (the one inside WordPress not in theme folder), find the line require( dirname( FILE ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' ); and change it to require( dirname( FILE ) . '/staging/wp-blog-header.php' ); Let me know the results.
    – Sid
    Nov 23, 2017 at 6:56

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