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Step 1: Login to your main domain’s WordPress admin area and install Duplicator plugin (contact us if you want the Pro version!)
Step 2: Activate Duplicator plugin
Step 3: Click Duplicator menu option in admin area and click ‘Create new’ button
Step 4: Click next
Step 5: Click build
Step 6: Download installer and archive file to your local computer
Step 7: Login to your JavaPipe control panel, expand websites and then click ‘launch’ icon for the website you need staging area added
Step 8: Click add domain and then enter the subdomain. In this example we use staging.demowp.com
Step 9: Click ‘list domain’ option and then click the ‘Launch’ icon
Step 10: Click filemanager
Step 11: Click public html in filemanager tab
Step 12: Click staging domain name folder which is staging. demowp.com in this demo case
Step 13: Remove all the files in it (right click and use delete option)
Step 14: Upload the installer.php and Archive files you created earlier using duplicator plugin
Step 15: Create database using JavaPipe control panel. You need to select the main domain name from the drop down
Note down the database name in the format user_dbname (see circled area in screenshot)
Step 16: Go to subdomain URL and access installer.php like http://staging.demowp.com/installer.php and click Next
Step 17: Add database details and click Next
Step 18: Verify path and click Next
Step 19: Click ‘Site Login’ to go the staging domain WordPress admin area. Use main domain's login itself
Step 20: Remove installation files from staging domains WordPress admin area
Step 21: Go to Settings >> Reading and Uncheck search engine visibility and save changes
Step 22: Go to JavaPipe control panel, list website option and click Launch icon for the main domain
Step 23: Click ‘list domains’ in new page and click launch icon
Step 24: Click rewrite rules and ‘Save Rewrite rules’
And you are done.