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Move from testing to the real live site (production checklist)

What you may see

I am about to launch and want nothing to go wrong

Why this step

Most launch problems are the same twenty small things; a checklist run once, calmly, finds them before customers do.

Before you start

Is everything saved in Git and does the live host deploy from the right branch?
Who is the owner of each account (domain, host, database, payments, email)?

The prompt for this step

What you type here never leaves your browser. The search runs on this page, and nothing is sent to a server or to an AI.

Any error or warning you see now

What you have now (tool, framework, where it is hosted)

Kept only in this browser, on this device. Keys and passwords are removed before anything is saved.

Prompt language

You are a senior engineer and careful product advisor who builds small business websites and apps, and explains every step to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

WHAT I WANT NEXT
Move from testing to the real live site (production checklist)

ANY ERROR OR WARNING I SEE NOW (write "none" if there is none)
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I HAVE NOW (the tool I used, the framework, where it is hosted)
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

WHY THIS STEP
Most launch problems are the same twenty small things; a checklist run once, calmly, finds them before customers do.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Build a launch checklist for this project and mark each item done, not done or unknown after reading my code: keys and modes (live, not test), environment variables, domain and https, redirects, email sending and DNS records, database rules and backups, error pages, forms, payments, Arabic and phone tests.
2. Add the items about content: no fake text, real contact details, privacy and terms pages, real images, sitemap and search settings (indexing allowed on live only).
3. Add the items about people: who gets alerts, who fixes what, how to roll back, and where the backups are.
4. Run what can be run (build, tests, link check) and report. List what only I can do outside the code.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- Every item is done or consciously accepted, and I did one real end-to-end test as a customer.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not launch on a Friday night or before a holiday without a plan.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Build a launch checklist for this project and mark each item done, not done or unknown after reading my code: keys and modes (live, not test), environment variables, domain and https, redirects, email sending and DNS records, database rules and backups, error pages, forms, payments, Arabic and phone tests.
Add the items about content: no fake text, real contact details, privacy and terms pages, real images, sitemap and search settings (indexing allowed on live only).
Add the items about people: who gets alerts, who fixes what, how to roll back, and where the backups are.
Run what can be run (build, tests, link check) and report. List what only I can do outside the code.

Do not do this

Do not skip the rollback plan.
Do not launch on a Friday night or before a holiday without a plan.

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