virtual servers temporary url

[loquela]

Hi there,

how do you set up a virtual host without first having a registered domain name?

 

I have set up a virtual host on my apache server and I want to check it but my domain name has not resolved yet. How  can I access the server in the meantime?

 

With some hosting providers when you set up a new hosting account they provide a temprary url like this: 12.345.67.890/domain.com

 

But this doesn't work on my server.

 

???

 

Cheers!

[trq]

Just access it via your ip address.

[loquela]

Thanks thorpe,

 

But what exactly do you mean?

 

the ip address is xx.xxx.xx.xxx and if I simply type that I get the main or default host server. How do I get to my additional virtual servers?

 

[trq]

Unless you have multiple ip addresses and use ip based virtual hosting you can't without domains.

[loquela]

Thanks,

 

OK, does anyone know how the hosting services provide temporary urls using single ip addresses?

For example, on my shared hosting, I can set up a hosting account using any random domain name -registered or not (I could use your domain name if I wanted) and they would create a domain reference. I would then be able to access the hosting account using a pattern like: 12.345.67.890/yourdonain.com. For example, this is one of my site: https://cser.org.uk/ the temporary address is: http://79.170.40.232/cser.org.uk/

 

I know they don't use separate ip for every domain reference.

 

I was wondering if anybody knows how this is achieved.

 

Thanks

[trq]

You could do that by creating a soft link within the document root of your default virtual host, that points to the document root of another virtual host.

[loquela]

Thanks Thorpe,

 

That sounds promising. How would I do that?

 

Cheers