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[Pingouin]

Hi,

On our good ol' RAQ4 we used to let users preview their sites before a newly added domain name was propagated, our Apache conf was modified like so :

# Added to let users preview their site before DNS setup
AliasMatch ^/preview/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/$1/web/$3
# END Added to let users preview their site before DNS setup

So typing http://ourserver/preview/www.usersite.com showed the user site contents as soon as it was installed;

This obviously has been changed in the 550, that for example redirect users to port 444 to manage their site,
Could anyone confirm what it should be like so that we have the same feature on the 550 ?

thanks,

[Pingouin]

So nobody wants their customer to preview their site on a RAQ 550 here ? ;-)

[blacknight]

I'm not familiar with the 550, but I presume you could use something similar with the rewrite engine...

Try the Cobalt Developers archive

[Frankster]

You can also just use the HOSTS file method (by editing the HOSTS file on your PC) or use this handy online tool, all you need to know is the IP of the server to preview on
previewasite.com

[achel]

Hi put my 550 behind 1 to 1 nat with his own public IP and configure an old supermicro p3 with debian + bind9.

I configure in my registar those command =>

domain.tld A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
*.domain.tld CNAME domain.tld.


In Bind9 I configure as the same :

domain.tld IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
*.domain.tld IN CNAME domain.tld.

Now, when I create in my blueonyx on my raq550 an A Record of an alias (for exemple alias.domain.tld A "Internal ip of my raq on my network") It's possible to see it on the net and in my network with the same URL :p

[Moviefrontier]

Originally Posted by achel

Hi put my 550 behind 1 to 1 nat with his own public IP and configure an old supermicro p3 with debian + bind9.

I configure in my registar those command =>

domain.tld A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
*.domain.tld CNAME domain.tld.


In Bind9 I configure as the same :

domain.tld IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
*.domain.tld IN CNAME domain.tld.

Now, when I create in my blueonyx on my raq550 an A Record of an alias (for exemple alias.domain.tld A "Internal ip of my raq on my network") It's possible to see it on the net and in my network with the same URL :p

thanks,dude,you sloved my problem

[ornela]

I like online tool PreviewaSite.com - You just enter the domain, IP and agree to terms and click “Preview Site”