Comments on: Viewing your site before it goes live – Flush DNS

By: Jared Ritchey

Jared Ritchey — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:29:04 +0000

Yep I use it so I can build projects without interfering with the front end of a live site.

By: Mijas

Mijas — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:51:24 +0000

I suppose a cool trick when ensuring you are matching up URL’s between the two sites for saving Google juice is to have the new sites’ domain coded to the IP address in a slightly different way – therefore allowing you to open two windows of the two sites at the same time and follow through the menu structures to ensure you catch everything for Google !?

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:58:39 +0000

Thank you.The content is very helpful.I need to flush my dns and doing it everytime by going to cmd.I am not sure till now how to write a .bat file for it till now

By: Seth Anderson

Seth Anderson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:07:55 +0000

I changed the hosts entry to just the ip of my shared server and it pinged as changed.

So, the /~username/ isn’t being recognized as a hosts entry

using that in the browser does point to the server correctly

By: Seth Anderson

Seth Anderson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:15:19 +0000

It is kicking up an open_basedir error when I point to the ip with a browser.

When I ping the domain after making the hosts edit it still pings to the old ip rather than the ip address that I defined in the hosts file.

By: Jared Ritchey

Jared Ritchey — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:10:22 +0000

Seth, first see if you can access the URL with the ~/username

If you can’t then that path may be incorrect on that server.

By: Seth Anderson

Seth Anderson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:59:32 +0000

I am trying to use this technique and can’t get it to work. The new server is a shared host with an address like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~username/. I have followed the steps to a “T” What could be wrong?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:17:03 +0000

Excellent description Jared… I suppose I am probably like many people that are well equipped to do almost anything with the computer, until getting into DNS where I usually get lost.

Since I will be needing to do this very shortly to “see and test my site before I switch DNS”, this instruction is timed well. I almost want to believe this was written just for me…

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