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test hosting - need to buy domain?

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  • 26-06-2013 2:14pm
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    zom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭


    Is there any option to use your hosting without actually buy/register domain? I have client with their website hosted already on their server and I look for place to build new one for them. If ready whey can seamlessly move from old to new. But I need web access to new one before domain migration. I know some hosting allows to access www content without specific domain attached - just using "internal" hosting provider URL? Is it working with blacknight?


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    There is a temporary URL feature available, or you could just use your hosts file ..

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    zom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    Blacknight wrote: »
    There is a temporary URL feature available, or you could just use your hosts file ..

    I found temporary URL on your hosting working, but it seems like I have to have registered domain to use application form Application Vault. I presume joomla/wordpress/drupal will work with temporary URL if I install them manually?


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    [Deleted User]
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    The Temporary URL's can work with such installs but some will redirect to the configured URL within the application.


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    zom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    I installed Joomla manually (Shared Hosting) and I found permissions/ownership to be complete pain.
    1 - Everything I uploaded by FTP has FTP ownership and can't be write/changed by Joomla.
    2 - If I change permissions to 777, I can write/change from Joomla. But then It takes 48/48 (Apache) ownership and it can't be writen/changed it from FTP!
    3 - If I do anything wrong from Joomla (delete file or plugin) I can't repair from FTP - it's not writable!!
    4 - If I would like to remove all Joomla installation (using FTP), I will stuck with this folders/files created by Joomla. They CANT be removed by FTP. They will stay on the server FOREVER??

    Is there any way to have access to change folder/files ownerships? I presume that's because you use php-mod method instead of fastcgi. But I am little terrified with this 48/48 folders I can't do anything about.


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    [Deleted User]
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    We would suggest running php in fastcgi mode and support can reset the permissions if you log a request with them via https://help.blacknight.com/home


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    zom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    I don't have domain attached to my shared hosting yet, so I will check fastcgi mode later.


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    uglybunz
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭uglybunz


    zom wrote: »
    I installed Joomla manually (Shared Hosting) and I found permissions/ownership to be complete pain.
    1 - Everything I uploaded by FTP has FTP ownership and can't be write/changed by Joomla.
    2 - If I change permissions to 777, I can write/change from Joomla. But then It takes 48/48 (Apache) ownership and it can't be writen/changed it from FTP!
    3 - If I do anything wrong from Joomla (delete file or plugin) I can't repair from FTP - it's not writable!!
    4 - If I would like to remove all Joomla installation (using FTP), I will stuck with this folders/files created by Joomla. They CANT be removed by FTP. They will stay on the server FOREVER??

    Is there any way to have access to change folder/files ownerships? I presume that's because you use php-mod method instead of fastcgi. But I am little terrified with this 48/48 folders I can't do anything about.

    You can use a web-based file manager like this one to delete files that are owned by the web process:
    http://extplorer.sourceforge.net/

    It can delete the files because it's running under the same web process that created/uploaded them.

    Be sure not to leave an application like this where it could be found/accessed by 3rd parties!

    HTH, uglybunz


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