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 HOW
TO VIEW A SITE BEFORE DNS CHANGES TAKE EFFECT |
For
any website to display, DNS master records need to be updated, which can take up
to 72 hours (see here).
If you would like
to view your site before the DNS changes take effect or test a site just after
creating it on the server you can do so. What you need to do is this:
Type this into a browser:
http://IP-Address/~username/
You need to replace "IP-Address" with the IP address of the server you
are on. This information was given to you in your welcome letter.
For most
people, this will be http://69.93.249.187/~username/
Then you need to replace "username" with the site's control panel
login. This is the username or login you use to get to the control panel for the
site or the master ftp login.
An important note: You MUST have the "~" in front of the login and a
"/" in back of the login in order for this to work.
One item to consider when you use this is this: If you are calling a script or
referencing an image or another web page by the full reference (http://mydomain.com)
those items will not work because they depend upon DNS working. That is, you are
calling an item by telling the server to find it by going to mydomain.com but
the DNS changes are not pointing to the server so it can't/won't find the
item yet.
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