Newbie question about Virtual Server without DNS

[stipto]

Hello,

I have searched endlessly for an answer to this, but it's just too complicated for me. Hope someone here can help me out, would be much appreciated!

I have a VPN running multiple Virtual Servers and have acces to this via Webmin. For a new website, I created a new Virtual Server and did it according to the Webmin guide. I haven't decided on a WWW name yet, so entered a temporary fake name. Now, when I point to the IP adress /directory that I have my index.html it show a site we're no longer running. I'm guessing that without a working DNS redirect the server points to a standard Virtual Server with the old site. The helpdesk of my provider says they're too busy to help me and that this is not standard configuration, so I should google on how to change this...

Anyone have a clue on what I should do?
Much appreciated!

[jdMorgan]

If you do not have a "unique" IP address and do not control the server configuration directly, then you may not be able to do anything without a proper domain name. That's because, if it is a name-based server, you are not sending it any 'name' to use to look up the proper virtual host, so it is serving the default virtual host contents (your old/defunct site) as a fallback.

I suppose you could put your new 'site' in the old (defunct) site's filespace if you just want to experiment with it, but you might want to consider blocking all robots from spidering that old domain until you are ready to roll out the new site/domain name...

Jim

[stipto]

Thanks Jim,

I've already solved the problem. I just wanted to set up a test site, so I added a subdomain to a domain I already had, and redirected it to my Virtual Server. Works fine now.

Thanks for the explanation though, now I really understand.