How To - Make your domain(s) accessible before DNS propagation

If you have added extra domains to your account and need to access them before the DNS points to our servers, please follow the below instructions:

 

1) Login to the HELM control panel and then select the domain you need to access.

2) Click the "Create a Temporary Access URL" from the domain menu as shown in the screenshot below next to the big blue arrow.
 

3) Simply follow the directions after clicking the link described in step 2, your domain will now be accessible such as yourdomain.com.tempweburl.com.

 

 

Note: If your site uses absolute url linking, then you will not be able to browse the site completely on our server without typing some of the web page addresses in manually. This is because each time you click a link on your page it will try to go to "yourdomain.com" instead of "youdomain.com.tempweburl.com". You can still browse the pages by typing in the address into the browser's address bar manually, such as "yourdomain.com.tembweburl.com/somepage.htm".