Posted by Carl Vondrick on 03/03/06 03:44

I do not believe that this will work. You need to change the host that
Apache is operating on to www.thiswebsite

Peter Mount wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was reading a tutorial on Cool URI's.
>
> I'm changing over to Linux from Windows but I need to finish a web site
> first in Windows before that can be completed. When I check the web site
> in localhost Windows puts %20 in the blank spaces (I'm sure you all know
> this).
>
> With the rewrite rule in httpd.conf I've got "/" going to "index.php"
> and "/news/" going to "news.php". When I upload the site will it work OK
> if I just replace the localhost part of the url (in the menu file) with
> the proper web site address?
>
> eg
>
> http://www.thiswebsite/
> http://www.thiswebsite/news/
>
> instead of:
>
> http://localhost/This%20Web%20Site/
> http://localhost/This%20Web%20Site/news/
>
> As the web address hasn't been redirected to the new web host will I be
> able to use the IP address of the web site's new location (i.e. after
> it's redelegated) to check it while it's still being propogated?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter Mount
> info@petermount.au.com


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