I recently started managing my own server and found it difficult to point my browser somewhere on my system without going through DNS records and registering a domain name. That is sort of a pain, but here is a quick hack to make this super easy.
Let’s say you want to create an admin site for your server. This could be useful to view the output of phpinfo() or something like that. Just set up a virtual host like you normally would. For example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin youremail@email.com
ServerName server-admin.net
ServerAlias server-admin.net
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/server-admin
<Directory "/var/www/server-admin">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>Then just add this to the bottom of your /etc/hosts file (assuming your OS is *nix):
your_servers_ip_address server-admin.net
Now you should be able to see that directory in your browser.
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How to point your browser at websites on your server without registering a domain
I recently started managing my own server and found it difficult to point my browser somewhere on my system without going through DNS records and registering a domain name. That is sort of a pain, but here is a quick hack to make this super easy.
Let’s say you want to create an admin site for your server. This could be useful to view the output of phpinfo() or something like that. Just set up a virtual host like you normally would. For example:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin youremail@email.com ServerName server-admin.net ServerAlias server-admin.net DirectoryIndex index.php index.html DocumentRoot /var/www/server-admin <Directory "/var/www/server-admin"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>Then just add this to the bottom of your /etc/hosts file (assuming your OS is *nix):
your_servers_ip_address server-admin.net
Now you should be able to see that directory in your browser.
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