RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ 550 - Site preview before DNS propagation

["H.P. Noordam" <bno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 
> Pizza Box manager schrieb:
> 
> > On our good ol' RAQ4 we used to let users preview their 
> sites before a
> > newly added domain name was propagated, our Apache conf was 
> modified like so :
> >
> > # Added to let users preview their site before DNS setup
> > AliasMatch ^/preview/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/$1/web/$3
> > # END Added to let users preview their site before DNS setup
> >
> > So typing http://ourserver/preview/www.usersite.com showed 
> the user site
> > contents as soon as it was installed;
> >
> > This obviously has been changed in the 550, that for 
> example redirect users
> > to port 444 to manage their site,
> > Could anyone confirm what it should be like so that we have the same
> > feature on the 550 ?
> 
> have you found a answer ?
> or someone else a hint ?
> 
> 
> --


Different option,
Have the user create a local hosts file on there machine, it will result
in the correct requests being made to the 550, and preview and
redirection to work.

Eg.

193.67.59.130   www.depopo.net

That way they can simply type www.depopo.net in there browser and pop
onto the site, even without dns.

Only drawback is that they of course will forget to re-mod or delete the
hosts file afterwards.

Bob.