: How to show client a domainless site without altering hosts file or using 'serverip/~accountname'? We have updated VPSs and apparently the latest version of PHP(?) does not allow you to use the

We have updated VPSs and apparently the latest version of PHP(?) does not allow you to use the servers ip /~accountname as a way to view a site that does not yet have a domain name associated to it, eg:

122.221.10.23/~newsite

or

ourhostingserver.com/~newsite

We can view it from our computers by altering the hosts file, adding something like:

122.221.10.23 newsite.com.au 122.221.10.23 newsite.com.au

but its not very practical to ask our not-tech-savvy clients to go altering their host files.

Does anyone know of a way we can show our clients these sites using some kind of temporary domain name or similar?

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@Sue5673885

There are multiple ways you could do this.

Have a staging server

So you must be having your own domain.
Use this nomenclature for hosting the staging work -

client.yourdomain.com

This is done using VirtualHosts in Apache. If you have your own VPS, this should be a breeze.

Another alternative for this would be to use folder structures -

yourdomain.com/client

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