Accessing websites while domains are propagating

[TheVDM]

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to access a website before the domain is set up or while it is propagating like you can when using cPanel with 111.111.111.111/~domain

Regards
Jim

[tahunasky]

Because the clients are not under the default document root (/var/www/html) you can't.

However you can make a symbolic link to the website in the html doc root.

All client websites are in this format:
/var/www/clients/client1/web2/web

ln -s /var/www/html/mywebsite /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web

then you can access it like:

192.168.1.1/mywebsite

[till]

Please see faq:

http://www.faqforge.com/linux/contro...-a-dns-record/

Originally Posted by tahunasky

Because the clients are not under the default document root (/var/www/html) you can't.

However you can make a symbolic link to the website in the html doc root.

All client websites are in this format:
/var/www/clients/client1/web2/web

ln -s /var/www/html/mywebsite /var/www/clients/client1/web2/web

then you can access it like:

192.168.1.1/mywebsite

This will not work for sites that contain scripts or cms sysetms as you will access the files with a wrong user.