# How to Go Live From Demo Site With Custom Domain?

> Learn how to go Live from demo site with your custom domain on xCloud easily in just a few clicks.

With xCloud, you can easily create a demo site in a few clicks and test everything before going live. A demo site serves as a test website where you can migrate sites, run experiments, use all necessary plugins and themes, and also go Live with a custom domain. But ever wondered how you can go live from a demo site with custom domain using xCloud?

Follow the steps below to go live from the demo site with a custom domain on xCloud

First, click on the **‘Domain’** → **‘Go Live’** option from the dashboard. Then go to the **‘Domain Setup’** section. Enter your **‘Domain name’** in the field.

Then go to the ‘**DNS Setup’** section from the dashboard and add the records to your domain provider and verify the DNS. 

![Go Live From Demo Site](/_landing/docs/how-to-go-live-from-demo-site-image-7.png)

If you are using Cloudflare for DNS management, you can [follow this guide](/docs/using-xcloud-with-cloudflare-for-dns-management/) for DNS Management with Cloudflare.

After that, click on the **‘Save’** button to complete the process. From the xCloud dashboard, you can easily go live from the demo site with a single click. 

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Want to learn about how to set up your DNS records? 

[**_Read the documentation_**](/docs/how-to-setup-dns-record-in-xcloud-server/) 

## What Go Live already does for you

For WordPress sites, Go Live already runs a database search-and-replace to swap the demo domain for the live one — you don't need to do this yourself in the normal case. The Go Live dialog lets you choose the **Search & Replace Mode** and **Table Mode**; the defaults cover the standard WordPress tables.

## Why old URLs can remain after Go Live

If images or links still point at the old demo domain afterward, it's usually one of these:

- The domain was changed a different way (for example, only at DNS) instead of through the Go Live wizard's search-and-replace.
- Some URLs aren't plain database values — they're hard-coded in theme or plugin code, or stored in page-builder data that the standard search-and-replace doesn't reach.
- The page cache or a CDN cache is still serving the old, pre-Go-Live version of a page.

## Fixing leftover old-domain URLs

1. **Purge caches first.** Clear the site's page cache and any CDN cache (Cloudflare or similar) — a stale cache is the simplest explanation and the quickest to rule out.
2. **Run WP-CLI search-replace if URLs are still wrong.** Take a backup first, then run:
   ```
   wp search-replace 'old-domain.com' 'new-domain.com' --all-tables --precise
   ```
   Use WP-CLI rather than raw SQL — it safely handles WordPress's serialized PHP data, which a plain SQL replace can corrupt. Check links and media on the site afterward.
3. **Check `home` and `siteurl`.** If either still points at the old domain, that's very likely the direct cause and worth confirming before you look further.

## Multisite

Multisite networks need extra care beyond the single-site steps above — the network's domain configuration and any per-site URL caching can each hold onto the old domain independently. If old URLs persist on a multisite install after the steps above, [contact support](/docs/access-built-in-support-portal-in-xcloud/) rather than editing multisite configuration blind.

Still stuck? Contact our [support team](https://support.xcloud.host/) for any of your queries.