To view your domain before you update your identify servers at your registrar,
Windows 7 Starter Product Key, you'll want to temporarily place an entry to your domain and its IP handle from the "hosts" file in your computer. For a Windows XP system, the file is located at c:windowssystem32driversetchosts. Other operating systems may have the hosts file in a different location, use a different file or may not have it at all. Open the hosts file in a text editor like notepad.
A typical Windows XP hosts file will initially look like this:
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.## This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.## This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should# be placed inside the first column followed by the corresponding host title.# The IP tackle and the host name should be separated by at least one# space.## Additionally,
Office 2007 Pro Plus, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.## For example:## 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host127.0.0.1 localhost
You'll wish to add a few lines at the bottom of the file as follows:
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.## This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.## This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP deal with should# be placed within the first column followed by the corresponding host identify.# The IP deal with and the host identify should be separated by at least one# space.## Additionally,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual# lines or following the machine identify denoted by a '#' symbol.## For example:## 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host127.0.0.1 localhost123.123.123.123 yourdomain.com #(you can add a description here)123.123.123.123 www.yourdomain.com
Replace 123.123.123.123 with your real IP tackle and and yourdomain.com with the real handle of your site. If you want,
Windows 7 Ultimate, you can also add a description for each site after a '#' symbol after each site (refer to the above example).
This will force your computer to look at your new site when you use the name of your domain,
Office 2010 Professional Plus, instead of looking at your old site.
Important: Make sure that about a week after updating your DNS at your registrar that you remove the entry from the hosts file so you are able to access the new site normally. Failure to do this may cause problems inside the future if your site changes its IP address.