# Set up a staging server

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-staging-server/225951>\
**Category:** Sysadmins\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [May 3, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-staging-server/225951 "2022-05-03T05:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-staging-server/225951/7 "2022-05-20T11:05:21Z")

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I made it a wiki.

Generally, I want a staging site to be using the same data as the production site so that you can test that things will work with the actual data. But maybe people want fake data to see what discourse can do before they start to use it? (Oh, I guess those links have some more sophisticated solutions.)

I guess you could have a `User.create` in a loop with a list of names from somewhere.

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