Site access prior to making domain "live"

[bmd2k1]

In a shared IP environment.....how would I give a user access to their domain....prior to making it "live". ie) pointing DNS servers at it.

This situation would be for folks that are coming from an existing domain/web site......NOT for new sites. (ie. we'd be porting things over...and user would want to verify/change things prior to going live.)

Is there such a thing as an "instant alias".....temporary address that user could go to?


thanks for your time...
-Brian

 

[nimal_ds]

Why not use the site preview function?

Its what we use when we have customers tranfering from another server/host. After theyve transfered files etc to us, they can use the site preview function to check that everything is ok.

hope it helps.

 

[bmd2k1]

with what we are doing.....the domain user will not have Plesk access.....and there "new" site is something that will be built/finalized while there old site is still live.

I'm looking for a way to point them at something in their browser....that will get them to the new site....without resolving to the domain yet.

-Brian

 

[mikelegg]

Site preview is just a URL so they don't need Plesk access to use it.

Its just http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/$sitepreview/xxxxxxx.com/

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your shared ip and xxxxxxx.com is the domain name you've used to set up the account.

 

[bmd2k1]

Then that sounds like what I'm looking for...I wasn't aware of how it functioned.

Thanks. I will test it out.

-Brian

 

[Pagemakers]

Originally posted by mikelegg
Site preview is just a URL so they don't need Plesk access to use it.

Its just http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/$sitepreview/xxxxxxx.com/

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your shared ip and xxxxxxx.com is the domain name you've used to set up the account.

That doesn't work for me.