RE: [cobalt-developers] Testing site before DNS transfer

["Paul Johnson" <pfj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,

Although I haven't tested this, there should be a far simpler way to
test new sites.  

Create an entry for www.newdomain.com in /etc/hosts, where the ip
address is the address of the cobalt server.  

Create a matching entry in the hosts file on your computer (and any
others you want to test from) On Windows machines the hosts file is
located in \windows\system32\drivers\etc or \winnt\system32\drivers\etc.
One thing to watch out for, if you edit the hosts file with Notepad,
notepad will want to add .txt to the filename when you save (as in
hosts.txt)  To prevent this, change the "files of type" in the save
dialog to "all files" instead of "text files".

Good luck, let us know how this works for you...

Paul


Peter wrote:
> I've created a new virtual site (www.domain.com) and what to
> be able to 
> test the site before transferring the DNS over from where it was 
> previously hosted. How can I view it? I've tried 
> www.myhostdomain.com/home/sites/site1, and putting a symbolic 
> link from 
> the web folder from a site I have transferred over to the site I want 
> to test but I get a permission denied message when following the link 
> in a browser.