[support] support Digest, Vol 120, Issue 41

[Roger]

On 12/25/2012 11:00 PM, support-request at drupal.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:19:50 -0500
> From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [support] support Digest, Vol 120, Issue 34
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> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>> Every site on the internet should have a domain name for people to get
>> to. (It is possible to access a site via just its IP address/port
>> number, but this isn't done often, and doesn't work for shared servers),
>> so to do any testing on a shared server you need a domain name that you
>> "own".
> I really dislike misinformation and the only reason I'm responding to
> this issue.  You do not need "a domain name that you "own"".  You will
> need to map the IP for the server to a domain name but it doesn't need
> to be registered in a DNS.  You map the IP to a domain name via the
> client hosts file.  On a *nix system that would be /etc/hosts.  On
> Windows it would be %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.  I
> typically use a fictitious host name of ``local.test'' with the name
> of the real site prepended such as example.local.test.  I enter the
> following in my client hosts file for my dev/test site.
>
> 127.0.0.1 example.local.test example
>
> Replace 127.0.0.1 with the appropriate IP address for your server.
> Doing this allows you to develop and test a site before putting it on
> line.
>
Thank you Earnie
That's pretty much exactly what I've learned to do on my home machine.
Doesn't matter what I call it which is why I went with rather obvious 
somename.ab or someothername.xy
I was hoping to do the same on the remote server so that I could develop 
a site that would not be found by searchbots and the like.
The issue I had/have on the shared server is that there is no 
/etc/hosts. I don't know how or to what the ISP has redirected apache.
Roger