Comments for BurstOpen http://burstopen.com Open source web development Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Test before DNS propagates by Chris http://burstopen.com/how-to/change-hosts/testing-before-dns-propagation/comment-page-1/#comment-17817 Chris Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:41:21 +0000 http://burstopen.com/how-to/change-hosts/testing-before-dns-propagation/#comment-17817 You can't. DNS (and the hosts file) is only for translating a host name to an IP address. So www.example.com gets translated to 123.123.123.123. But the mod_userdir format (123.123.123.123/~sitename) is itself just another workaround to do the same job - viewing a website before the DNS has propagated - you don't ever need to use both. So if you have a website that's available as http://123.123.123.123/~sitename it should also be available as http://sitename.com, with sitename.com being whatever domain you set up at your host, provided that DNS (or the hosts file) connects 123.123.123.123 to sitename.com. I don't see why this would require you to change anything in the databases unless you're deliberately setting up the website on 123.123.123.123/~sitename, which would be a very bad idea - requiring you to change these details anyway before the site goes live. You can’t. DNS (and the hosts file) is only for translating a host name to an IP address. So www.example.com gets translated to 123.123.123.123. But the mod_userdir format (123.123.123.123/~sitename) is itself just another workaround to do the same job – viewing a website before the DNS has propagated – you don’t ever need to use both.

So if you have a website that’s available as http://123.123.123.123/~sitename it should also be available as http://sitename.com, with sitename.com being whatever domain you set up at your host, provided that DNS (or the hosts file) connects 123.123.123.123 to sitename.com. I don’t see why this would require you to change anything in the databases unless you’re deliberately setting up the website on 123.123.123.123/~sitename, which would be a very bad idea – requiring you to change these details anyway before the site goes live.

]]> Comment on Test before DNS propagates by Wabber http://burstopen.com/how-to/change-hosts/testing-before-dns-propagation/comment-page-1/#comment-17804 Wabber Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:57:26 +0000 http://burstopen.com/how-to/change-hosts/testing-before-dns-propagation/#comment-17804 I'm trying to redirect the site locally using the windows hosts file but not sure about the format - the traditional format works file: 123.123.123.123 www.example.com but in this case we'd like it to redirect to 123.123.123.123/~sitename When I enter the below though it doesn't work: 123.123.123.123/~sitename www.example.com Any suggestions as to how I might fix this using the HOSTS file - I'd rather not play around with the phpadmin and databases if possible? I’m trying to redirect the site locally using the windows hosts file but not sure about the format – the traditional format works file:
123.123.123.123 www.example.com

but in this case we’d like it to redirect to 123.123.123.123/~sitename

When I enter the below though it doesn’t work:
123.123.123.123/~sitename www.example.com

Any suggestions as to how I might fix this using the HOSTS file – I’d rather not play around with the phpadmin and databases if possible?

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