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

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:48 AM 9/13/01, Kai Deecke wrote:
> Say my main IP is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and I set a site up www.domain.com.
> Is there any way of getting http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/sites/domain.com/
> Or similar so you can preview the site before your domain resolves?

It is very easy to "force" a domain to resolve for your own computer.  All 
OSes have a 'hosts' file that works just like DNS.  Your mail headers 
indicate you're running Outlook, and hence Windows.  Edit your 
c:\windows\hosts or c:\winnt\hosts file in Notepad.  Add a line like the 
following:

1.2.3.4 example.com

Use either a tab or spaces between the IP and domain name.  You can even 
configure multiple domain names to point to the IP -- just do something like:

1.2.3.4         example.com www.example.com mail.example.com

This is a great way to test your site before activating DNS.

Note there's no need to do anything further on the server, including 
RewriteRules, to make this work.

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