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I'm running WinXP pro sp3
I have a site which I am redeveloping for client. I want to redevelop the site on my reseller hosting - get approval and then chnage the nameservers permanetly
In the meantime I was going to change the hosts file on my laptop to reflect the new IP of my hosting for the site
I've done this by adding a line like
12.23.455.87 mysite.com www.mysite.com
I can ping mysite.com and it returns the (new) IP address
I have restared browser, cleared caches, stoped DNS services running on the laptop, rebooted the laptop
I've run ipconfig/flushdns several times
but nothing will give me anything but a time out error (on IE) or a blank page (with FF)
I have rebooted my cable modem in case there was an issue with DNS caching there
I can see the site on the new hosting if I browse to 12.34.567.89/~user ( hosting is hostgator reseller if it matters)
theres no typo in the hosts file - there are no extra copies of hosts lying around - Im using the one is windoes/system32/drivers/etc
There are only 2 lines in the file
127.0.0.0 localhost
and my extra line
I've wasted hours on this - I really can't see the issue - hoping someone else can