Getting ready to start a new account and I have a few questions.  Currently our organization is hosting our own website and we are changing the site to use Drupal and as a result we will need to have the existing site up and running at its current location while we develop the new solution.  My questions are:
1. What is the best way to set up a site on lunarpages to develop this new site then start using the existing domain name on the new site.  For example, I currently have www.mycompany.com which needs to stay where it is until the new site is ready then move to the lunarpages site.
2. what is the best way to setup a development environment, testing environment, and a production environement where I can promote from one environement to the next through the website product lifecycle.  Should I be using sub-domains or just create a completely different site for each.

thanks in advance for any help.

definitely helps thanks,  as a followup, would it be possible that the subdomain yourname.lunpagesowneddomain.com could be accessed as
dev.yourname.com and do you know if there will be any problems setting up multiple independent drupal environments as sub-domains.

thanks again and look forward to signing up today.

thanks I am ready to go but the site seems to be unavailable or unstable, not a good sign for a new customer.    . also one last question.  where do i specify that I want to be on a server with php5 and mysql5.

thanks

ok signed up, went to the control panel to find out what version of php and it 4.48 but there is an icon to enable php 5 and I do so.  However when I run <? phpinfo(); ?> is still get 4.48 see link http://www.devaelera.businessnetonline.com/phpversion.php

am I missing a step?

thanks

sorry operator error.  I enabled php5 before installing drupal and it overwrote the htaccess file.  I disabled and enabled again and it is working.

thanks again.
jc

Mitch, I know this is an old thread but after developing the site we went live on friday and switched from the sub-domain to the real domain.  My question, which I asked originally was how to go about setting up a development environment.  I have my main site and www.mydomain.com.  I created a new sub-domain "dev" and I am trying to access at dev.mydomain.com and I am getting a can not find server at.... error.   If I go to www.mydomain.com/dev/index.html I can see that site but I really need to access it as dev.mydomain.com.  Am I doing something wrong?
thanks,
jc

no errors that I am aware of.  the site is www.enherentcorp.com and the subdomain is dev