# Cloning a website
**URL:** https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488
**Category:** Bootstrap Studio Help
**Created:** [October 1, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488 "2025-10-01T11:16:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@fabiobernardi](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/fabiobernardi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/1 "2025-10-01T11:16:05Z")
Hello there,
I made a website for myself, it’s my portfolio and i have also an agency and i would like to have similar design, so i thought to clone the first website then the second one i change few things and adapted to an agency portfolio/website like. So far so good, the issue is when i try to publish the new one I add the domain of the agency but this domain is changing also in the first website, how can i solve this issue?
Is it clear what i’m trying to do?
Best,
Fabio
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### Author:  [@catkin](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/catkin)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/2 "2025-10-01T11:22:28Z")
How did you close the website, did you copy the BSS Design file then rename it?
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### Author:  [@fabiobernardi](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/fabiobernardi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/3 "2025-10-01T11:27:16Z")
Thanks for coming back to me. Yes, in that way
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### Author:  [@catkin](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/catkin)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/4 "2025-10-01T11:52:03Z")
And when click publish - are you pressing the button in the top right of the application, or are you opening the publishing modal, choosing the site in the drop down, clicking save then publishing it?
Bootstrap Studio shall have saved the URL you wanted to publish to in the design file. So that could be the issue
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### Author:  [@fabiobernardi](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/fabiobernardi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/5 "2025-10-01T12:06:15Z")
The first and original website is fabiobernardi and the second is appleandpear so when i save and publish the second one it’s also save the same domain to the first one - see the screenshot attached, I’m inside fabiobernardi but the domain is not [fabiobernardi.com](http://fabiobernardi.com)
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### Author:  [@catkin](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/catkin)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/6 "2025-10-01T12:15:02Z")
Sorry, I’m not sure I understand.
Can you explain the core issue you are experiencing one more time?
Also, I see you have added www to the [appleandpear.co.uk](http://appleandpear.co.uk) domain, this is an issue as the domain doesn’t point to this address.
www is a sub-domain, meaning it had its own DNS records. [www.appleandpear.co.uk](http://www.appleandpear.co.uk) does not point to the BSS hosting platform, instead you are pointing [appleandpear.co.uk](http://appleandpear.co.uk) to the BSS hosting platform.
Is that the issue?
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### Author:  [@fabiobernardi](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/fabiobernardi)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/7 "2025-10-01T12:25:28Z")
No, sorry but i have modified tha url
The issue is, if i add the new url where to publish the apple and pear website which is [appleandpear.co.uk](http://appleandpear.co.uk) this it will be also the domain on fabio bernardi BSS even thought was already saved to be published to [fabiobernardi.com](http://fabiobernardi.com) (which is already live).
So it seems i cannot save the right domain for each individual BSS designs (Fabio bernardi \> [fabiobernardi.com](http://fabiobernardi.com) and Apple&Pear \> [appleandpear.co.uk](http://appleandpear.co.uk) )
p.s. I have copied fabiobernardi design to apple&pear and renamed it
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### Author:  [@martin](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/martin)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/8 "2025-10-02T17:54:23Z")
The reported issue is a quirk in how Bootstrap Studio stores design settings. If you copy a bsdesign file in your file manager it will have the same id as the original and both will share some settings. The solution is to use Save As. You can learn [more here](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/export-path-changes-to-other-projects-destination/5375).
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### Author:  [@fabiobernardi](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/u/fabiobernardi)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.bootstrapstudio.io/t/cloning-a-website/12488/9 "2025-10-06T16:30:36Z")
Thank you Martin and Catkin for your reply.