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alley
October 10th, 2006, 12:09
Is it possible to create a new account in WHM without entering a domain name?

Say you have a client that already has a website hosted elsewhere up and running, but he hired you to design him a new one and you don't want to take his current site down until you have finished the design but you would like to create an account for him on your server so you can start uploading files and such.

can you just give it a temporary IP address somehow until you are ready to actually add the domain name to the account? I have seen hosts do this before, I just don't know how.

thanls :-)
krakjoe
October 10th, 2006, 12:26
urm, no .... not that I know of, it'll give you syntax warnings if you try it ....
matty005
October 10th, 2006, 13:06
No its impossible to make an account with no domain.
[JSH]John
October 10th, 2006, 13:16
Make them with a subdomain instead, that's what I do :) theirsite.yourdomain.com ;)
James
October 10th, 2006, 19:16
You can do IP, http://321.321.321.321/~username/

That will show the site but it will only show properly if the links are relative, or actually if it's calling on the url images and the url is actually up else where as well, it will show - just in that case, when you click on a link the paths would take you to the site on the other server.
alley
October 10th, 2006, 20:30
How did you do that James? lol



You can do IP, http://321.321.321.321/~username/

That will show the site but it will only show properly if the links are relative, or actually if it's calling on the url images and the url is actually up else where as well, it will show - just in that case, when you click on a link the paths would take you to the site on the other server.
James
October 11th, 2006, 02:38
How did you do that James? lol

Sorry, what do you mean?
krakjoe
October 11th, 2006, 03:12
you shouldn't encourage accessing accounts like that, bandwidth isn't counted.
James
October 11th, 2006, 03:17
you shouldn't encourage accessing accounts like that, bandwidth isn't counted.

Hopefully the VPS / Server provider has bandwidth monitors available to the client. oldman2 Those who don't like this way of access can disable the feature.
fireshark
October 12th, 2006, 00:28
I like how you reference nonexistent IP's.
misshost
October 13th, 2006, 06:03
subdomain.yourdomain.com is the best option :)
Decker
October 13th, 2006, 07:29
You could also run a local 'server' and develop it there - if it needs LAPM (Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL) sort of platform I've always found phpDEV (http://www.firepages.com.au/) to be great for that type of thing so no domain probs, you just use http://localhost as the browser address to view during dev work.