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Testing site Before DNS propagation

Posted on November 30, 2013

Hello!

I have just created a droplet on ubuntu, then instaled zpanel. The problem is taht when i try to access the zpanel interface in my web browser with the subdomain set by zpanel (zpanel.domain.com) it shows nothing, probably because there’s no DNS pointing to it, am i right?

I want to do some tests in a temporary domain, to put all my site files and test everything, to only then change the DNS. How do i do that? How to use Zpanel to do my tests before propagating DNS?



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You can edit <code>/etc/hosts</code> locally in order to test zPanel before updating the DNS records.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#Location_in_the_file_system <br>there is host file on most oses, if you dont use linux localy

sorry, i’m totally new with all those stuff, the experience i had was shared hosting with cpanel, and now im learning all this new stuff… <br> <br>What do i do with the hosts file? put on my droplet IP?

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