I have my box finally secured by following all the great checklists in these forums and now I would to set up my website. Here is an overview of what I want to do.

I will only be hosting one site on my box, my own, currently on a VPS somewhere else. I want to upload all my new scripts and debug them in a Linux environment, make sure all is ok, and then point my domain name to my new server.

I am somewhat confused on how to go about all this. My main questions are:

1) For the Main Shared Virtual Host IP field, do I input the IP address I was assigned? Also for the primary and secondary nameservers what should I input in this transitional period

2) Should I just create a new account for my website (already did this but since I had to input a domain, it's going to the old site)

Basically what I need to do is access the 'test' site via the web using the IP address if I have to until I set my CMS up correctly and then transfer the domain name.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Try entering the following in your browser:

http://55.66.44.33/~username/

obviously with your server IP. The "username" has to be the username on the user account, not the domain name. It works for me - but fails when I forget to include the trailing "/".

Internal scripts should be OK if they use relative links, but will reference your other site if they use hardcoded domain names.

Bill

Thanks, that seemed to do it. Now it's on to uploading the scripts (no hardcoded URLs just relative paths so they should work)

How do I FTP my files on there. I have tried entering the above mentioned IP/~username/ but it won't allow me to connect neither via SSH2 or normal port 21 FTP. I can't login to Cpanel as well. Any suggestions?

Never mind. Got it working

Glad you got it working. For others who encounter this problem, when you want cpanel or ftp, just enter the IP, not the /~username/. Then use the username and password when asked.