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You can modify your hosts file enables you to override the domain name system (DNS) for a domain on a specific machine when you do the testing on staging site. Modifying your hosts file causes your local machine to look directly at the Internet Protocol (IP) address that you specify. After you add the domain information and save the file, your system begins to resolve to the IP address that you specified. When testing is complete, remove these entries. CHeck this guideline how you can change your local host file: <a href="https://docs.rackspace.com/support/how-to/modify-your-hosts-file/" rel="ugc">https://docs.rackspace.com/support/how-to/modify-your-hosts-file/</a> 
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The way I handle this... 
 
1) <a href="https://domainname.com" rel="ugc">https://domainname.com</a>&nbsp;is production server, covered by a TLS cert. 
 
2) <a href="https://dev.domainname.com" rel="ugc">https://dev.domainname.com</a>&nbsp;is production server, covered by a TLS cert. 
 
Thus, even dev/staging/whatever is always covered by it's own cert + always named something different than the root domain. 
 
3) Test the dev host (#2) till all's well. 
 
4) Make a backup of production site + archive the backup. 
 
5) Make a backup of the dev site + destroy the production site (all files + database) + restore the dev backup using a WordPress backup/restore plugin, denoting the site URL changing from dev.domainname.com to domainname.com during restore, so all database serialized data is correctly rewritten. 
 
This means you never have to worry about all the considerations you mention in your original comment... which was... difficult to follow... 
 
This also means you have TLS coverage for all hosts + domains, independent of state - production or other...
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Hi David Favor and David Lee I need to have just test domain so I dont know if I need to change in apache virtual host also or what &nbsp;as in virtual host it is www.domain.com ??
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Since you're using apache virtual host, you need to edit httpd-vhosts.conf &nbsp;file as well. Check this article for the detailed setup guidelines: <a href="https://www.cloudways.com/blog/configure-virtual-host-on-windows-10-for-wordpress/" rel="ugc">https://www.cloudways.com/blog/configure-virtual-host-on-windows-10-for-wordpress/</a> 
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Hi Teams kindly I have wordpress site hosted on &nbsp;AWS&nbsp;production server as EC2 instance called prod&nbsp; in AWs and&nbsp;Mysql RDS&nbsp;as database &nbsp;called&nbsp;RDS_Prod&nbsp;server as I already cloned Production server as new ec2 and connected it to same Rds (RDS_Prod)&nbsp; and is called Staging&nbsp;as I enabled all firewall rules &nbsp;the issue that in the apache of production server (original server) it is redirected to <a target="_blank" rel="ugc nofollow">www.domainname.com</a>&nbsp;in staging server as it is &nbsp;cloned&nbsp; which is prod server&nbsp;so how can I load web data from production server (prod )&nbsp;in clone environment and&nbsp;test with another url for staging&nbsp;&nbsp;(staging) for wordpress and &nbsp;domain test url &nbsp;with same data from production so that I will not be redirected to domain name of production . when I shutdown Production server it &nbsp;gives error in Staging as it is redirected to domain of Prod&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="ugc nofollow">www.domainname.com</a>&nbsp;
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Hi Teams
kindly
I have wordpress site hosted on  
AWS 
production server as EC2 instance
called
prod 
in
AWs
and
 Mysql RDS 
as database  called
 RDS_Prod 
server as I already cloned Production server as new ec2 and connected it to same Rds (
RDS_Prod)
  and is called
S
taging 
as I enabled all firewall rules
 the issue that in the apache of production server (original server) it is redirected to
www.domainname.com
 in staging server as it is  cloned
  which is
prod server 
so how can I
load web data from production server (prod ) 
in clone environment and
 test with another url

for staging 
 (staging) for wordpress and  domain test url  
with same data from production so that I will not be redirected to domain name of production .
when I shutdown Production server it  gives error in Staging as it is redirected to domain of Prod 
www.domainname.com
 

cloning of production server to staging environment

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical, globally distributed system responsible for associating the name of a computer, service or other resource into an IP address for connecting to the Internet or a private network. Most prominently, it translates domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of computer services and devices worldwide.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.

AWS RDS

The Apache HTTP Server is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. Typically Apache is run on a Unix-like operating system, but it is available for a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Novell NetWare, Mac OS-X and Windows. Released under the Apache License, Apache is open-source software.