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Ive set up a new site with WHM but havent got the DNS set up yet. I want to be able to access the site via a browser so I can set up a CMS. Usually, I can just do this by entering the IP address into the browser, but this time I just get a page saying that Apache is working on the server.

Does anyone know a way round this? Thanks!

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The problem is that the request your browser is sending doesn't include the correct Host: in the HTTP header, so the web server replies with the a default catch-all page.

You can either

• setup a private (local) authoritative DNS server with a yoursite.com zone, and set your system's DNS to point to this DNS server, or

• temporarily trick the DNS resolution in your local system by registering whatever.yoursite.com with it's corresponding IP address in /etc/hosts file (in unix-like systems). There's an equivalent file in MS Windows systems, look for a file named hosts in C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc.

I'd try with the latter first, as it's just a matter of adding a single line to a text file:

203.0.113.22    whatever.yoursite.com

You may need to restart your browser.