What is the best way to point newly built website on new domain name to the original more well known domain?

[wkismb]

Live website on abc.com domain is being totally redone and moved to a new platform.  to facilitate full testing and compliance, the new look and content was built on a different url - xyz.com for example.

Now that all content is approved and testing, we want people visiting the abc.com domain to see the xyz.com website without necessarily redirecting abc.com to xyz.com

What is the best to do this?

Thanks all

[Asher]

I am not sure what you are asking so this is my interpretation of what you are asking.  You want people who are going to abc.com to see what is on xyz.com? If that is the case, you can do a 302 redirect (temporary) so that they will automatically go to the xyz.com.  If that is not the case and you want people to still see abc.com and go to xyz.com as an option then just put a button at the top of the menu saying "check the look and feel of the new website" and have it direct to xyz.com.  I hope I understood this correctly, if not let me know.

[josh-riley]

I agree; it's a little unclear. You need to redirect but you said you don't want to redirect, so maybe if you shared some strategy? Like, why wouldn't you want to redirect, it could help?

[EGOL]

I think that doing a redirect is a lot more risky than just putting the new design out there to see what happens.