I am looking to stand-up a development/test WordPress website in Azure alongside our production site and am looking for any best practices I can find.
The idea is to keep the environments the same having both sites on the Azure PaaS but having different URL’s to be able to access them. And having the databases be separate (to ensure we don’t mess up anything in production)
Example…
Production — http://companywebsite.com
Development — http://test.companywebsite.com
Has anyone attempted something like this before? It would be fairly simple if the development was being done locally but we need multiple (non-developer) users to be able to access the WordPress admin panel on the test site and be able to install plugins and such to test.
Thanks in advance!
have you tried deployment slot?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-staged-publishing/
Update:
Seems like you can also config wordpress to aware of staging environment.
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-staging-environment-for-a-wordpress-site/