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[Hazel Tree]

Hey! Just signed up with ASO hosting. Haven't had my domain name propagated yet, however I need to test some live PHP on the server. What's the naming convention for shared server space urls? As in: http://xxx.xx.xx.xxx..._html/index.php or so.

Thank you!

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Edited by Hazel Tree, 20 May 2011 - 05:42 PM.

[IBBoard]

For future reference:

a) I believe ASO have stopped allowing access as http://ip.add.re.ss/~username/ because it bypassed cPanel's accounting mechanism and let people have free bandwidth
b) If you edit your "hosts" file (/etc/hosts on Linux, c:\Windows\System32\etc\hosts or something similar on WinXP and who knows where on Vista and 7) then you can add in mappings of IP addresses to domains. If your domain name is still propagating, but the server knows that it should be handling requests for that domain (i.e. it is already setup in cPanel) then you can add the mapping to your hosts file and all of your requests for that domain will go to that IP address.

The format of a hosts file is:

1.2.3.256 example.com

to map example.com to the (invalid) IP address 1.2.3.256

[jednorozec]

It's c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on both XP and 7 with minor differences in case which don't matter because Windows is too backward to be case sensitive.

[IBBoard]

Sorry, I was working from memory. There was a vague nagging thought that it might have an extra folder in there somewhere I didn't realise they'd managed to actually keep the path consistent, though. That must be a first!

[jednorozec]

I doubt that it was intentional. It was probably gross negligence on the part of somebody at Microsoft.