I’m deploying an application on a sub-domain where the primary domain is hosted elsewhere. It may be a day or two before I can get the DNS records updated for the sub-domain to point to my Planet Argon account.

In the meanwhile, is there any way for me to test my Rails app (I’m using Nginx / Mongrel)? My understanding is that Apache forwards requests coming through the sub-domain to the proper private port, but I don’t think there’s a way for me to access directly via IP address. Any help here is appreciated.

Chris,

Great question. You can do this by modifying your local host configuration. We have a writeup on the Planet Argon Documentation Project.

• http://docs.planetargon.com/DNS_Hosts_file

Let us know if you have any problems with this solution.

Happy New Year!