RE: [cobalt-users] Viewing websites before domains resolve.

["Eric Lewis" <lewisdvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai said:

Subject: [cobalt-users] Viewing websites before domains resolve.
Or similar so you can preview the site before your domain resolves?
Thanks in advance.
Kai.

Kai,
the easiest way to do this is to edit the hosts file in your windows machine
you will be viewing from.

just use notepad to add a line at the end like this:

xxx.xx.xxx.xx www.mydomain.com

(where xxx.xx.xxx.xx is the iP of your Cobalt product)
Then save the file back to the windows directory as hosts ( no extension )

You may have to delete cached files from IE so that it will look for the
site.
Basically this just keep windows from asking for DNS info from an internet
host, but looking to your IP for the domain, as it is alread "defined" by
your pc.

Hope this helps.
There are other ways, by editing the httpd.conf file on your server, so you
can call it by the xxx.xx.xxx.xx/www.domainname.com or some such, but this
is much faster and doesn't void the warranty on your Cobalt product.

Eric Lewis
www.erixis.com
eric@xxxxxxxxxx