See a new site not yet propagated

Hello,

if I have set a new site with shared ip with DA. How can I see it in my browser and work on it, if it is not already propagated?

I know I can see DA control panel adding :2222 to the shared IP and after log in, but to see the site what do I have to add to the IP?

ex.
ip 000.000.000.000
site newsite.com


Thank you.

juliusbarra said:

How can I see it in my browser and work on it, if it is not already propagated?

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Try http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~accountName

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx = your IP address
accountName = the account name

Best of luck!

Rick

It should be: http://IP_address/~username/domain.ext.

Hi,

thanks for the answers, but it seems that neither of them works.

I think that what Julius is really looking for is a way to fool his computer into showing the domain as if it had already propagated.

Two ways I can think off the top of my head.

1. Edit your hosts file if you are using windows. Messy but it works. AND you have to remember to delete the entry eventually or all manners of fun things will happen later if you change the domain IP for some reason and you forget you ever made that entry. Not recommended.

http://accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html for a little tutorial for windows.

2. Use opendns.com on your computer, rather than your ISP dns... do their cachecheck refresh and usually a domain will come up live in under 5 minutes. A big plus is that EVERYBODY on opendns gets the change immediately as well. Try that with your provider!

http://www.opendns.com

This is foolproof, you just have to wait a little while. Nevertheless, it beats your ISP by a mile.

Edit:

Some may be wondering WHY one would do such a thing. The first thing that comes to mind is that installing php scripts, such as Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, etc., require a lot of configuration through their own little control panels which expect for your URIs to already be operational. For those cases, http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~accountName is simply not practical.

Julius: Read this KB article "How to setup /~username/domain.com".

Thanks all for the answers.

For me the simplest way is the one exposed by rtaylor in the last post.

If I want to see a site not already propagated or even not already registered I change the default site in DA and call the domain in browser with.

http://123.123.123.123/~username/

If I want to see more sites not already propagated or even not already registered I have to create a symbolic link for every domain as the rtaylor's link suggests and call a domain in browser with

http://123.123.123.123/~username/domain1.com/ domain2.com domain3.com ...

To come back to the default situation just delete the directory you created before

cd /home/username
rm -f public_html

and set in DA the new default domain.