1 Topic by Vegan
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Hi

I have just set up a domain and was wondering if there is anyway to view my magento site before we move nameservers? If so how do I

Many thanks.

2 Reply by Jac_intheB0x
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Hi,

Unfortunately I don't think the site preview is going to help you.  Magento builds absolute URLs for css, js etc, and these absolute URLs dont' work.    If you want to view the site as it will look when live then there are two choices :

1) Change the domain name to one of your hosting supplier development domains, if they have them. You will need to contact your hosting supplier

2) Modify your host file so that www.domain.co.uk  = 92.63.134.93 (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file for further information ). You will need to remember to remove this when you've finished though.

smile

3 Reply by drax
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I used the old host file trick when I last released a magento site, seemed to do the trick smile

4 Reply by NuBlue-Luke
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We usually recommend the hosts file trick, gives you a 100% up to date preview of the site before changing any global dns.

With Macintosh OS X, the procedure is similar to Linux. The hosts file can be found in

/etc/hosts

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