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

[Daniel Anliker <support@xxxxxxxxxx>]

i know that way, but thats not client friendli ...


"H.P. Noordam" schrieb:

> >
> >
> > 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.
>
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