Publish staging changes
Review the transfer scope and protect live content before moving tested changes into production.
In this guide
Review the release
Publishing staging is a change to the real website. Confirm the source, destination, approved work, and recovery point before starting. Make a fresh backup of live and verify it completed. Record the time so you know which later orders, uploads, or edits would need preserving if you had to recover.
Choose the transfer scope
- Open Hosting control panel from Kiro and select the intended website’s Staging environment.
- Choose Push to Live. Review the comparison and every option shown before confirming.
- Available scope choices can include files, a full database, table structure changes, or tables with changed data. Choose the scope that matches the reviewed release.
- Confirm once, then monitor the existing operation until it finishes.
Selecting individual tables is still an overwrite decision, not a guarantee that two sets of business data will be merged safely. If you cannot explain what each selected table contains, stop and ask for a review.
Verify the live site
- Open the live domain in a fresh browser session and confirm that the intended changes are present.
- Inspect the main pages, navigation, images, and mobile layout.
- Test sign-in, forms, and other important features with safe test data.
- For a store or booking site, check that recent records remain present and that its operational settings are correct.
- Check caching only after confirming the correct transfer completed. An old browser view is not a reason to run another push.
Keep the release notes and recovery point until the website has passed your checks. Make sure everyone working on the site knows which copy is now the current version.
If the result is unclear
A timeout can occur after the server has started a transfer. Inspect the operation and both environments before retrying. Contact Kiro with the domain, time, selected scope, and error text if completion cannot be confirmed. Avoid making more changes while the outcome is under review.
Push to Staging copies in the opposite direction: from live into the test copy. Review it with the same care because it can replace work that exists only in staging.