How To Set Up a Demo Without a license number

[gabs007]

Hi All, 

Short Story. 2 months ago a company approached me to set up a new community. I bought a good a domain name and I was about to buy a new IPS license, but the customer backed out in the last minute. Now I have an empty good domain and nothing else. I still think the project is interesting and possible if I can show the potential to other companies.

I know I'm allowed to install a demo for any registered domain with IPS, but I was wondering if I'm allowed or I can install a IPS4 version in a complete different domain.
I'd like to set up the software, create 2 forums, add a few posts, and few images to show the whole potential of the website. After that I would close the community and put some kind of "Project for Sale" Message. 

Can I do that using any of my licenses ? or is this against the Terms of Services ? How can I do that ?
Help Appreciated. 

 

PS: if I can sell the project during the year, of course I will buy a license and sell the whole website with a new IPS License. 

[Nathan Explosion]

The question might be better aimed directly at account support via the client area - simple question: Are you allowed to use the -TESTINSTALL version of a license on any domain, or must it be used on the same domain as the main license itself?

[steve00]

You can have one test installation so you could use the new domain name for test install but if you already have a url for a test install then you would have to remove that one from its location completely and then notifying IPS change of test install before using new one.

Hope that make sense

[gabs007]

Ok, finally  I could find this message hidden in another thread, it took me a while.
I answer myself, in case someone has the same doubts in the future and lands in this thread

 

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Note that an offline development license is issued to work on a live version of your site in an isolated environment. Test changes, upgrades, etc. It is NOT to allow you to run a completely separate instance of the software on a public web host on its own domain name -- offline or not. That is an abuse of the license agreement and can result in license termination per the usage clause which states that you are authorized to run one instance of the software accessible by one URL.

So the "testinstall" feature doesn't allow you to set up a demo anywhere outside the domain.  

In order to set up a visible non-usuable demo,  I need to buy a full license 175$. There is no other way.

[Rhett]

5 hours ago, gabs007 said:

Ok, finally  I could find this message hidden in another thread, it took me a while.
I answer myself, in case someone has the same doubts in the future and lands in this thread

 

So the "testinstall" feature doesn't allow you to set up a demo anywhere outside the domain.  

In order to set up a visible non-usuable demo,  I need to buy a full license 175$. There is no other way.

There is no demo option available with our license policy, you can have one live site and a private test site, the test site must be on a private server or locked down with htaccess so it's not available to the public. Turning it offline isn't enough, it must not be available to the public, htaccess protection works well for this if your only option is a public web server. 

Thank you