Re: [cobalt-users] Quick Account Setup

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Web Host Supply" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That is how we do it. The welcome letter tells them how to access the site
> via IP, keep in mind you can't access the domain siteadmin until the
domain
> name becomes active, but they can FTP to the site so the content is ready
> when DNS updates.

Actually you can.  If the client is running a Windows machine, the client
just needs to add a DNS record to his/her local DNS file, which is named
hosts (location dependent on version of Windows being run).  Then when the
client uses his/her browser it looks up the DNS info. locally and displays
the site.  This can be accomplished on *nix machines too.  In that rare
event, the client can add the info. to /etc/hosts.  The beauty of this
solution is that it doesn't require you to do IP-based hosting and it allows
your clients to access the GUI without doing some Apache mod_rewrite magic.
One downside is that it requires your clients to be knowledgeable enough to
change their hosts file or you to be patient enough to walk them through it.
Another downside is that site visitors will also need to add the same info.
to the hosts file to visit the site, though there aren't probably many times
when a client needs visitors to be able to access the site before DNS
propagates.

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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/