How to access not yet registered domain?

[extomas]

Hi, glad to join your community. Hope you can help me, after sometime maybe i can help for someone

Here is my problem:

i have bought a domain .co.uk but its not registered yet and i want to test my web on my host: host1plus.com
i have direct admin panel, is there a way to access the website without domain already registered?

[MrTWS]

Normally if you buy a domain name you are in fact registering it with your host. I cannot comment on your hosting company but most domains take anywhere between 0 and 48 hours to propagate when the domain will go live - ie. you can see it via a browser

But perhaps on your control panel should be the domain name you've just registered, and you may be able to view it as if it were live already

[Jill74_1974]

welcome extromass. enjoy your stay in this forum.

[James]

Originally Posted by extomas

Hi, glad to join your community. Hope you can help me, after sometime maybe i can help for someone

Here is my problem:

i have bought a domain .co.uk but its not registered yet and i want to test my web on my host: host1plus.com
i have direct admin panel, is there a way to access the website without domain already registered?

There should be a temporary url to access the website. In cPanel, a website can be access through a temporary url i.e. http://serveripaddress/~username

[sysadmin]

Originally Posted by MrTWS

Normally if you buy a domain name you are in fact registering it with your host. I cannot comment on your hosting company but most domains take anywhere between 0 and 48 hours to propagate when the domain will go live - ie. you can see it via a browser

But perhaps on your control panel should be the domain name you've just registered, and you may be able to view it as if it were live already

You can make any unregistered/registered domain point to a particular server by making appropriate changes in the local machine's "hosts" file which is usually found in the "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc" folder.

Append the following lines to it:

www.xxx.yyy.zzz some-testing-domain.com
www.xxx.yyy.zzz www.some-testing-domain.com

Now if you browse the site some-testing-domain it's point to that particular IP address mentioned here [www.xxx.yyy.zzz]

[MrTWS]

Thanks for that info Jack most kind

[Dan]

The Windows hosts file comes in handy now and again, I use it to stop small children accessing irrelevant websites, although for that purpose it's not that feasible

[extomas]

Originally Posted by Jill74_1974

welcome extromass. enjoy your stay in this forum.

Hello, thanks. My nick is extomas