After a successful migration to WPOven, if you wish to check site running on WPOven servers, without updating the DNS, you need to follow these steps
-You need to acquire your WPOven server IP. You can see the server IP from the WPOven dashboard under the 'Server' Menu tab.
-Next depending on your Operating System, open the file :
- For Windows :
-Open you favorite editor (like Notepad), by right clicking it's icon and selecting 'Run as Administrator'.
-From the editor, open the file : c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
-At the very end of this file, add the line :
WPOven ServerIP yourdomainname.com
Example :
192.2.3.4 wpoven.com
-Save and exit the file.
- For Mac OS
-Open the 'Terminal' Application
-Enter the following command :
sudo nano /private/etc/hosts
-At the very end of this file, add the line :
WPOven ServerIP yourdomainname.com
Example :
192.2.3.4 wpoven.com
-Save and exit the file.
- For Linux
-Open the Terminal Window
-Enter the following command :
sudo nano /etc/hosts
-At the very end of this file, add the line :
WPOven ServerIP yourdomainname.com
Example :
192.2.3.4 wpoven.com
-Save and exit the file.
-To check if the above steps have been done correctly, you can ping your site domain name and it would reply back from the WPOven server IP.
-Now if you open the site on your browser it would be running from the WPOven server.
-NOTE : After you check the site, delete the entry made in the hosts file earlier
