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| Article number: kb-8 | Q. Can I preview my website before before it has been pointed to your servers
A. Yes, you can! To experience your site properly as it exists on our servers, on most Windows based systems, follow these steps:
Get your site's IP address from your web site instructions email. It will be shown in the "Web Site" section of your instructions email, and will look like this:
Your web site: domain.com or www.domain.com
IP Address: 12.34.56.78
(The above values are examples. You would replace domain.com with your domain name, and 12.34.56.78 with your IP address, throughout this article).
Using notepad, edit the file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on your local computer. Be default, the contents of the file are:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 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 in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, 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 host
127.0.0.1 localhost
Add lines for your site's IP address and domain name (both the non-www and www versions), so that the last few lines of the hosts files look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
12.34.56.78 domain.com
12.34.56.78 www.domain.com
Save the hosts file, restart your browser, and visit your site. At this point, you'll be pointing to our servers for the site, and will be able to preview it as it will work once you change the domain's nameservers and "point" the domain to your ChurchQuest hosting.
When finished previewing, be sure and remove the added lines from your hosts file and re-save it.
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