Website Staging Environment
You can test and prepare changes to your hosted website using the NetSuite staging environment.
In your Web Site Hosting Files folder, there are two folders—Live and Staging. Files in the Live folder compose your website and appear to customers. When you need to make and test changes to your site, you can upload your new site to the Staging folder.
You can set the audience on your Staging folder so that only employees or partners can view the website while it is under test. When you set an audience for your staging folder, employees and partners must log into NetSuite, and use the URL for the site home page to view the site. For more information, see Audience Permissions for Hosted Sites.
When the audience for the staging folder is not set, you must create a domain where you can stage your website.
To set up your website staging environment:
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Register your staging domain and point the domain at NetSuite. For more information, see Point Your Domain Name at Your Domain (DNS Settings).
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Go to Commerce > Hosting > Domains. Add the domain for use on your staging environment.
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In the HTML Hosting Root column, select Staging.
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Click Add.
When you are confident with your new site, move your files from the Staging folder to the Live folder.