Viewing a domain on EUKHost before I've switched the DNS - UK Web Hosting | Dedicated Server Windows and Linux VPS Forum

**MortimerJazz** · #1 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 14:06

Afternoon everyone.

I'm in the process of transferring a web site hosting to EUKHost. I've added on the domain name to my existing hosting account and I'm setting about uploading some software to run everything.

My question is this: is it possible to view this new add-on domain via an IP address or something as I'd like to make sure that it all looks fine before I switch the DNS settings on the domain to point to the new host?

Thanks very much

**flesso** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 14:07

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Originally Posted by MortimerJazz

Afternoon everyone.

I'm in the process of transferring a web site hosting to EUKHost. I've added on the domain name to my existing hosting account and I'm setting about uploading some software to run everything.

My question is this: is it possible to view this new add-on domain via an IP address or something as I'd like to make sure that it all looks fine before I switch the DNS settings on the domain to point to the new host?

Thanks very much

Which control panel are you using? Plesk or cPanel? Plesk has a web site hosting preview feature built in, but I'm not sure about cPanel.

**DPS Computing** · #3 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 14:10

If your on Linux (cPanel) then you can access your web site hosting using the following:

IPADDRESS/~username/addondomainfolder

Hope that helps

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**MortimerJazz** · #4 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 14:15

Brilliant - thanks!

**DPS Computing** · #5 (**permalink**) 06-12-2007, 14:17

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Originally Posted by MortimerJazz

Brilliant - thanks!

No problem. Don't hesitate to come back to the thread if you have any problems or need anymore help

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**Mel** · #6 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 05:43

I am trying to do a similar thing with a wordpress blog and want to set-up, view etc before I pull the DNS switch.

Problem is that I cannot access the WP control panel using the temp URI, so cannot set the thing up.

An ideas??

**Mel** · #7 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 07:10

OK, I have sorted this out & for the benefit of others who might want to do this the steps are:

//tempuri/login.php

This gets you to a low res version of the WP control panel.

Change the two URLs to your //tempuri and save.

You now have lift-off & you will see the hi-res version of WP. I guess when you have set WP up and you want to it go live reset the URL's in the control panel to your domain.

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