{"id":10,"date":"2026-09-11T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/?p=10"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:38:52","slug":"staging-and-development-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/general\/staging-and-development-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Staging and development sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One license covers one domain, but you do not need a separate license for your staging site or your local copy. When you add a domain in the dashboard, the license also works on that domain&#8217;s subdomains and on local development sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where your license works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Your main domain<\/strong>, exactly as you added it:<br>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">example.com<\/a><br>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.example.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.example.com<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; &#8220;www&#8221;&nbsp;is ignored, both forms are the same domain<br>&#8211; &#8220;http:\/\/&#8221; or &#8220;https:\/\/&#8221;, and any port &#8211; also ignored<br><strong>All subdomains of your domain<\/strong>, at any depth:<br>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.example.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staging.example.com<\/a><br>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.example.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dev.example.com<\/a><br>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/test.example.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">test.example.com<\/a><br>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/test1.staging.example.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">test1.staging.example.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Local development sites<\/strong>, regardless of which domain you registered:<br>&#8211; localhost and 127.0.0.1<br>&#8211; Private network addresses: 192.168.*.*, 10.*.*.*, 172.16-31.*.*<br>&#8211; .local &#8211; Local by Flywheel<br>&#8211; .test, .localhost, .localdomain &#8211; Valet, Herd and similar<br>&#8211; .<a href=\"https:\/\/ddev.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ddev.site<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; DDEV<br>&#8211; .<a href=\"https:\/\/lndo.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lndo.site<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Lando<br>&#8211; .invalid, .example, .internal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where your license does not work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Any other domain.<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/example.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">example.net<\/a>&nbsp;needs its own license, even if it is the same site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Subdomains of shared hosting addresses.<\/strong>&nbsp;If the domain you added is a hosting platform&#8217;s own address &#8211; for example&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wpengine.com<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kinsta.cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kinsta.cloud<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/netlify.app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">netlify.app<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vercel.app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vercel.app<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wordpress.com<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; subdomains are not covered, because they belong to different customers. Your own site on such a platform (for example&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mysite.wpengine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mysite.wpengine.com<\/a>) works normally, together with its subdomains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Subdomains with a subpath.<\/strong>\u00a0A subdomain is covered when your site sits at its root. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.example.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staging.example.com<\/a> works, <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.example.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staging.example.com\/shop<\/a>\u00a0does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Domains with a subpath<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your site is installed in a subdirectory, you add the domain together with that path &#8211; for example&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/mysite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">example.com\/mysite<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>In that case none of the above applies.<\/strong>&nbsp;The license works only on that exact address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One license covers one domain, but you do not need a separate license for your staging site or your local copy. 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