Posted by BillyKoch on January 3, 2012 at 8:11pm
I am looking into rebuilding a site - that is currently in Wordpress (ack! as a CMS) but I want to rebuild it using Drupal - now here is the question right now the site is currently on a Shared Hosting somewhere else - but I want to build it using my hosting and then when I am done and it's ready to go "LIVE" then have it activated over my side (which I know I can change the nameservers) but the question is - can the site be built with the ip's/~domainname and when I am done then turn on clean urls? I know some you can't do that and some you can - but I haven't tried it with Drupal - is it possible?
Or can I develop it locally and then when done - upload it to the server and then activate the site?
Comments
No need to limit yourself
You don't have to turn off clean urls during site development, because the full path isn't stored in the db for each node - only the part after the main site url. Everything is relative. You can have clean urls enabled during development (whether on your local computer or a dev server), and when you push the site live, everything works great. I routinely develop sites for my clients on my development server which produces a url that looks like:
www.sample.com.php####.websitetestlink.com/the-clean-url-page-name
When I push the site live, the url becomes:
www.sample.com/the-clean-url-page-name
and everything works fine. This works on localhost as well. So, save yourself a headache and leave clean urls on from the beginning so you don't have to go in and generate them later. Hope that answers your question.