1 Topic by Xander
  • Xander
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  • Registered: 2009-10-14
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HI

Not sure if anyone can help, but I have a slight issue and any advice would be much appreciated!!!!!

One of my domains 'forexample.com' is being hosted by another company, but I am switching it over to a new company. As part of this we are doing a redesign and setting it up to use Wordpress as the CMS. I have set up the domain on our VPS and we?ve installed Wordpress. The problem is that when we try to get to the wordpress login page using the IP address, it automatically redirects to the existing domain site.

I just wondered if anyone had any idea if we can get around this without changing the DNS settings to point to the VPS?

Thanks

2 Reply by NuBlue-Ewan
  • NuBlue-Ewan
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  • Registered: 2009-06-02
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Hi,  There are a few ways to go about it.

* You can add an A record to DNS to create a subdomain of your site, for example newsite.example.com. you change the site name in plesk and swap it back when you are ready to go live.

* You can change your hosts file in windows and add your IP followed by your domain name (and it would spoof the website to go to that ip; then plesk will serve the site)

The file is in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts it can be hard to modify if you are on windows vista.

If you are on a Mac the file is /private/etc/hosts

Kind Regards Ewan

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