Re[2]: [cobalt-users] Viewing a site before propagation [was: (no subject)]

[Richard Kurth <rkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jeff,

Saturday, September 08, 2001, 5:32:19 PM, you wrote:

Jeff Lasman> Steve Werby wrote:

>> One solution on Windows machines is to set the host-ip info explicitly in
>> the hosts file on the client machine.  Other solutions involving rewrite
>> rules to access the site through a directory of the main site have been
>> posted as well.  Search the archives for combos words like: dns propagation,
>> access, hosts, etc.

Jeff Lasman> Easiest way on a RaQ4 appears to be to set the html alias to
Jeff Lasman> "newdomain.yourdomain.com" and to put an entry for
Jeff Lasman> newdomain.yourdomain.com into DNS.  You can either leave it in, or take
Jeff Lasman> it out once DNS propogates.

Jeff Lasman> This, like most other solutions, won't work for any hardcoded links
Jeff Lasman> inside your site that go to your entire url, i.e., <a
Jeff Lasman> href="http://www.yoursite.com/something>.  Instead you should use
Jeff Lasman> something like <a href="/something">.

Jeff Lasman> Jeff

The easiest way to do this on RaQ3 or RaQ4 is

Insert this line in your httpd.conf (mainsite)

AliasMatch ^/newsite/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/$1/web/$3

Then restart Apache - after that, you can access it with:
www.originaldomain.com/newsite/www.newdomain.com

Then it is done automatically when ever you set up a new named based
site
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Best regards,
 Richard  
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