[support] support Digest, Vol 120, Issue 41

[Jamie Holly]

You can do the same on a remote server:

- Set your ServerName in your virtual host to whatever you want.

- Set your hosts file on your home/work computer to point the name you 
came up with to the IP address of that remote machine.

Works pretty much the same as doing it on a machine at home.

The other option to stop search engines is to password protect the 
entire site. Usually I just do that through .htaccess

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net

On 12/26/2012 1:32 AM, Roger 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