Staging and development sites

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’s subdomains and on local development sites.

#Where your license works

Your main domain, exactly as you added it:
– example.com
– www.example.com – “www” is ignored, both forms are the same domain
– “http://” or “https://”, and any port – also ignored
All subdomains of your domain, at any depth:
– staging.example.com
– dev.example.com
– test.example.com
– test1.staging.example.com

Local development sites, regardless of which domain you registered:
– localhost and 127.0.0.1
– Private network addresses: 192.168.*.*, 10.*.*.*, 172.16-31.*.*
– .local – Local by Flywheel
– .test, .localhost, .localdomain – Valet, Herd and similar
– .ddev.site – DDEV
– .lndo.site – Lando
– .invalid, .example, .internal

#Where your license does not work

Any other domain. example.net needs its own license, even if it is the same site.

Subdomains of shared hosting addresses. If the domain you added is a hosting platform’s own address – for example wpengine.com, kinsta.cloud, netlify.app, vercel.app or wordpress.com – subdomains are not covered, because they belong to different customers. Your own site on such a platform (for example mysite.wpengine.com) works normally, together with its subdomains.

Subdomains with a subpath. A subdomain is covered when your site sits at its root.  staging.example.com works, staging.example.com/shop does not.

#Domains with a subpath

If your site is installed in a subdirectory, you add the domain together with that path – for example example.com/mysite. In that case none of the above applies. The license works only on that exact address.