I'm developing a site for a client. They've got a site now that's hosted at hosting.com. I'm going to move them to my VM hosting solution at edge web but I want to run some tests and have the client approve the site before changing the name servers to the new site/hosting location.
How do I make this happen? I'm running a red hat/Apache on linux for the edge web hosting. I don't have control of the domain name (i.e. the client controls that right now).
Edgeweb has set up a dns zone for the domain name so that when the time comes to switch we're ready to go.
I'm a web developer and I understand the technologies that make a user experience 'work' but I'm unfamiliar with the server jargon and all that so, please be patient.
Thanks in advance.
beta.domain.com
) and point it to your hosting. On your hosting configure your Apache virtual host (or whatever web server you have there) to accept that domain name. If your code uses domain name when building links/rewrite rules etc, usebeta.domain.name
(in other words, domain name should not be hard coded, rather defined as constant/variable). When time comes to move proper domain to your hosting, just update all the configs with proper domain name.beta.domain.com
on the Apache server? I was able to get access to the DNS records for the domain name and add adev.clientswebsite.com
A record.DocumentRoot
,ServerName
etc directives -- httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/directives.html