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Seeing a site before it goes live on our server

Preview a site on our server before DNS points the domain at us by editing the 'hosts' file on your local PC.

On your computer search for notepad, right click and run as administrator:
In notepad, file open:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Change the file type to all files
Open hosts,

Enter the IP address of the server and the site you want to see. Save and close.

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