Site development methodology

  • This question has two sides to it: a theoretical one, and a technical one:

    I am trying to resolve a development lifecycle issue with my website design.

    My initial plan was to set up a staging server with an instance of apache/php/mysql and WordPress, develop my content on this staging server, then, at various checkpoints in the development process, deploy my code to a separate instance of apache on the same server (mapped to a different URL).

    My question is:
    Is this a typical website development methodology? The reason why this is not obvious to me, is that I’ve had several difficulties in transferring my content from the staging configuration to production; it doesn’t always seem to go smoothly, and I have yet to find a simple process that just works. That’s the technical side of my question. . .

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