[kall]

Originally Posted by vijayninel

Tell him to test it elsewhere and give the final product / installation instructions to you. He could mess up your live forums big time if something goes wrong.

It is also highly unlikely that he has any malicious intent, but if he has then you could be in a big soup.

Ultimately its your site and you have to take care of its safety. If anything goes wrong then he will just throw his hands up and absolve himself of all responsibility. But you and your site will suffer.

Depending on the value of the contract, I'd probably tell someone with that attitude to find another Freelancer.

If he spends the time making the mod, without any access to the site it is going to live on, then provides it, and it doesn't work (and possibly the client refuses to pay), what's he supposed to do?