I have my live website, and a staged (Copy) of the website which is where I do all my testing and editing before pushing to live.

But the staged copy has a different address, and comes up with continual validation errros which makes it hard to do any work on this.

The address difference is only minor

website is shop.rpw.com.au

Staging is staging4.shop.rpw.com.au

Any ideas how to get around this?

hi David,

you don't need to worry about it. Just click the "Validate" button on both of the website (stage and live).. You won't have any problem.

See this FAQ below. From the Template-License Policy page (www.flexiblewebdesign.com/license)


Q1: I purchased the template/extension with "Single domain" option, but I need to install it to my development server for testing and customization which has a different domain. What should I do?
A1: You don't need to do anything, just go head and do. Domain Validation is not an automatic system, we are peridically (usually once a month) check the domains that use our template/extension, and compare them in the "allowed domains" in our backend. If we see suspicous activity, first we contact the license owner and let him/her know about this situation. If no response in 5 business days; we take an action and "copyright criminal" banner shows off on the website. If the website is hosted in a domain, something like: test.domain.com, www.domain.com/user1/something or http://localhost/ it is obvious that this is a development server (we are also designer and totally understand this situation, every live website has at least one development server/domain). YOU ARE FREE TO INSTALL THE TEMPLATE/EXTENSION AS MANY DOMAIN AS YOU WISH FOR TESTING PURPOSES. Only running and live websites are affected from the domain regulation.


Regards