RE: [cobalt-users] Re: cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #1544 - 16 msgs

["Jim Carey" <ozbcoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Our domain is people-link.com and so we add an a record to the dns
> records for that domain and call it: john.people-link.com. We save
> all that and then we go to the web site directory we created for
> www.john.com and we change the name of the site to
> john.people-link.com. And that's what we have people upload to and
> test.
>
> When everything is ready, we'll switch that site's name back to the
> original "www.john.com" and just erase the a record we created for
> john.people-link.com.

>
> You can make that name change back and forth forever. As long as you
> keep the same IP number for it, nothing will alter the structure or
> contents of its directory. It's just a name and a site by any other
> name looks as sweet. :-)

the only times when that causes difficulty is with frontpage extensions
enabled. As frontpage stores the site details in its file, when you change
names it gets confused

Jim Carey