Preview Website without DNS pointed

[kilburn]

(08-02-2009 02:02 AM)sidha Wrote:  The simple method:
1. at one of your already working domain's htdocs dir (/var/www/virtual/alreadyworkingdomain.com/htdocs) make a dir with the name of your new domain:

Code:

mkdir newdomain

2. type:

Code:

mount --bind /var/www/virtual/newnotworkingdomain.com/htdocs/ /var/www/virtual/myalreadyworkingdomain.com/htdocs/newdomain/

3. point your browser to http://myalreadyworkingdomain.com/newdomain/

(To unmount later: umount /var/www/virtual/newnotworkingdomain.com/htdocs/)
(note: at step 2. there is one line with a space between the two paths)

This is a valid method for apache+mod_php but not for fastcgi/fcgid (ispcp default). The reason is that each domain belongs to a different user and, therefore, http://myalreadyworkingdomain.com/newdomain/ will throw you a 403 Forbidden error when trying to run php/cgi scripts...

Quote:Thank you kilburn ! This is a smart solution which can also be apply for alias preview (and maybe for subdomain preview using *.*.users IN A IP.OF.YOUR.SERVER)

You're welcome! My own tests show that the record "*.users IN A" already resolves "*.*.users IN A" queries, so you should only need to edit the ServerAlias directives in the respective template files (something like subdmn_entry.tpl, als_entry.tpl) and it should automagically work for subdomains/aliases too