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Re: [cobalt-users] View sites before propogation

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Andy Jacobs wrote:

>
> I want to set my server up so that I can do
> www.doman.com/sites/www.newdomain.com to see sites that I'm working on
> before propogation.  I remember having to put a line in my httpd.conf file
> to make this work but I don't have the necessary line, or the details in
> where it should go.


Viewing a Site Before Propagation

User Method
edit \windows\hosts file
add
ip address tab  www.domainname.com

Via Main Site
1. Backup your httpd.conf file.
2. In your main site's block in the httpd.conf file, add this line:
    AliasMatch ^/sites/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/$1/web/$3
3. Save the file and exit.
4. Restart the httpd server.
   /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
   /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
5. Go to www.yourmainsite.com/sites/www.any-site-on-the-server.com in
   your browser

6. References to graphics in the customer pages need to be in the form of
    <html>
    <body>
    <p><center><font size=5 color="red"><b>Test of Site Before DNS
    Propagation</b></center>
    <font color="black">
    <p>
    <img src="siteimage/topbar.gif"><b>Test</B> path is siteimage/topbar.gif
    <p>
    </body>
    </html


thom

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