I have a somewhat complicated situation. We have a blog let's say at myblog.com and it is running fine. However, we now want to cut the budget and use a free hosting service isgreat.org. The service allows us to let a domain point to it so that we can host our blog.The problem is, now I'll have to change the domain's HOST record in order to start testing it. I obviously want a way to test it before actually changing anything. Using an alias for test.myblog.com requires the domain to be managed in the service's control panel, which I don't want either.So, the question is, can I type the IP address of the host in the browser, and somehow tell it that I am referring to it under the domain name myblog.com, so that it will show me my blog, instead of a default page?
How to test the migration of a domain without actually changing the domain?
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You can edit your hosts file in a way that this domain name points to different IP. For example in Windows the host file is in: \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\In Ubuntu it is in:/etc/So you find the file, open it with simple text editor, and write the new IP and the domain name. It must look something like:  92.152.175.86 mydomain.com