Whether subdomain or local host is your choice.
If going with local computer, we'd recommend using WAMPServer (https://wampserver.aviatechno.net/) instead of XaMPP because WAMPServer lets you choose your PHP version among other things on the fly whereas XAMPP is tied to the version of PHP that ships with it, and PHP can't be changed without reinstalling XAMPP completely. WAMPServer lets you change PHP and install 'modules' such as additional PHP versions, or versions of MySQL or Maria DB etc as well so you can do more wider testing on a variety of server setups.
You can make a sub-domain for the development site like https://dev.yoursite.com (refer to your web hosting company documentation on how to make a subdomain, usually done in a hosting admin system like cPanel).
When ready to put the site live, copy the site and database using Akeeba backup and Kickstart.
https://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website
If going with local computer, we'd recommend using WAMPServer (https://wampserver.aviatechno.net/) instead of XaMPP because WAMPServer lets you choose your PHP version among other things on the fly whereas XAMPP is tied to the version of PHP that ships with it, and PHP can't be changed without reinstalling XAMPP completely. WAMPServer lets you change PHP and install 'modules' such as additional PHP versions, or versions of MySQL or Maria DB etc as well so you can do more wider testing on a variety of server setups.
You can make a sub-domain for the development site like https://dev.yoursite.com (refer to your web hosting company documentation on how to make a subdomain, usually done in a hosting admin system like cPanel).
When ready to put the site live, copy the site and database using Akeeba backup and Kickstart.
https://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website
Statistics: Posted by AMurray — Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:30 pm