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# Staging deployments

## Concept
  
Staging deployments give you the ability to build and deploy branches in addition to your main branch. This allows you to stage changes before merging them to production, giving colleagues or customers the option to test and provide feedback. 

~~~mermaid
graph TD
    A(local workspace):::active -->|push to branch A| B(GitHub repository):::active
    B -->|on push| C{Deploy Now}:::active
    C -->|deploy main| D([production]):::inactive
    C -->|deploy branch A| E([stage 1]):::active
    C -->|deploy branch N| F([stage x]):::inactive
    D --> D1([custom domain])
    E --> E1([preview URL]):::active
    F --> F1([preview URL])
~~~

## Domains
By default, new branches get deployed automatically and receive preview URLs. As Staging Deployments are not meant to be visible for website visitors, you cannot connect them with custom domains. If you are happy with your changes, simply roll them out by merging the branch to production.

## Production data
Data from the producion deployment webspace and database is not copied to staging. You can copy productive data to a staging deployment using phpMyAdmin.