RE: [cobalt-users] browse virtual site via IP and email storage?

["Lanny Gridley" <lannyg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Fred McKinnon wrote:

> 
> 1)  It there ANY URL or way for a user to browse their
> site via the web *BEFORE* their domain is activated
> and pointed in DNS?  I know if they are the only site
> on an IP, they can just go to http://IPADDRESS, but
> for a virtual site (named site) that is sharing an IP,
> but the domain isn't pointing yet . . anything they
> can do?

The way that I deal with this is setting up canonical domains using my main domain. For example I have a new site called newsite.com. I create the virtual site just like normal but add an alias called newsite.mydomain.com. I then go into my dns and add a canonical domain newsite.mydomain.com that points to my primary IP. I give the new client the temporary domain address that they can use to publish to their site until their domain name is transferred. (Since your main domain is already using your DNS server it is almost instant when you add a canonical domain). This has worked well for me and I have seen several other hosting providers use the same method.

Lanny