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View CartTesting 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.
Learn MoremojoPortal Tips: How Can I Test Changes to My mojoPortal Site?
Last Updated on Friday, 15 February 2013 07:02 Written by Carole Bennett Friday, 15 February 2013 12:00
When working with an open-source CMS (content management system) like mojoPortal, it’s a joy to be able to access functionality to configure your mojoPortal-based solution to the specific needs of your clientele. However, when it comes time to update the site to incorporate the latest features and enhancements for mojoPortal, it can be a bit scary to test changes that may break your customizations. We’ll review a simple technique today that’ll allow you to test your current site’s configuration, without causing “live site” breaks.
First, we’ll define the prerequisites needed for testing: a local version of your database of choice (default is MSSQL, which is what we’ll cover today), and a localhost version of your current site (either leveraging IIS, or Visual Studio – it’s easy to download a copy of Visual Studio Express, or with a little bit of initiative, sign up for one of the programs that will allow you access to a free copy of Visual Studio Developer Edition).
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