Testing Your Site Before Updating the DNS… HOW TO: Temporary URLS and Updating your Hosts File

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:58 Written by Karen S Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:53

We all know the importance of testing your site after a migration to your hosting account.  More often than not we wish to do this prior to updating the domain’s DNS nameservers to Arvixe.   We have a few options that allow us to do this – via the control panel, as well as by modifying your local PC’s hosts file.

Both cPanel and Website Panel provide temporary URLs via the hostname.

How to Point My Domain to a Temporary URL

Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 04:28 Written by Anand Narayanaswamy Tuesday, 19 February 2013 12:00

Normally, it will take 24 hours for the nameservers to resolve after modification. However, you can work with your site by enabling temporary URL till the domain is properly resolved.

(1) Login to WebsitePanel

(2) Select Domains icon