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AHS
2004-10-18, 07:24 AM
I run windows 2003 with IIS 6.0 and Helm 3.1.19

Is there anyway for a customer to view there web site before there domain DNS has pointed to my server.

Thanks
Tim
2004-10-18, 08:18 AM
You can have them change their hosts file or you can create a subdomain of a domain currently on your server that points to their website.
Ron
2004-10-18, 14:16 PM
Like explained above you could have:
preview.yourowndomain.com and point it to their wwwroot folder or have www.yourowndomain.com/preview.
DXD
2004-10-18, 14:36 PM
What I did for my customers since I just transfered them to the new box and wanted them to have a chance to verify their site before I made it live was I entered an A record in my dns to make a pointer using my domain to their website and added that pointer to the hostheader of their website in IIS

IE:

http://theirsitecom.mysite.com pointed to http://www.theirsite.com and then I added to the host header for their website theirsitecom.dynamicbydesign.com

Worked great for me but I'm looking to automate it with HELM so when a new helm client signs up it would automatically create a A record pointed to their site like I didn manually above.
KyleMulligan
2004-10-18, 15:57 PM
I just tell my customers that they're free to use a domain alias on my own domain.
DXD
2004-10-18, 16:00 PM
That's works to but only if you havea single server. If you have multiple servers that wouldn't work, but it sounds like WHA is working on all that with the new version of HELM that they say will have an API so I'll be able to write whatever I want and make it do whatever I want (I hope).
KyleMulligan
2004-10-20, 20:22 PM
The automatic creation of domain alias preview urls is handled by a new Helm add-in product released on Monday called Helm Extensions.

http://www.helmextensions.com