How to preview website

[jamiro911]

Hello, I have a new dedicated server and now I want to preview a website, or better there is an account with joomla installed, and work on that joomla website without a hostname allready connected to the site.
With my older server it did worked with http://ipserver/~username but with the new server it doesn't work that way.

[madaboutlinux]

Looks like mod_userdir is enabled on the server which restricts the ip/~username access. Goto

WHM >> Security Center >> Apache mod_userdir Tweak

and see if "Enable mod_userdir" checkbox is selected. If it is, deselect it and save. You can also disable the protection on per user basis.

[jamiro911]

Looks like mod_userdir is enabled on the server which restricts the ip/~username access. Goto



and see if "Enable mod_userdir" checkbox is selected. If it is, deselect it and save. You can also disable the protection on per user basis.

That I've allready tried but that doesn't work.
What does work is this http://www.previewasite.com/

[madaboutlinux]

What error message do you receive while accessing the domain via

http://IP/~username

check the error logs at the time you browse the above URL

tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log

[jamiro911]

What error message do you receive while accessing the domain via



check the error logs at the time you browse the above URL

Where can I found -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log ?

is dat in WHM or cpanel? cause previewasite doesn't work anymore neither.

[jamiro911]

now when I disable Apache mod_userdir Tweak it works with http://serverip/~user but when I enable it Apache mod_userdir Tweak and exclude one user it doesn't work.

[cPanelJared]

You must log into the shell to view the Apache logs. Log into the shell as root via SSH, and use the less or tail command to view the log. If you use the tail -f command, you can follow what is written to the file while you try to view the site.

What happens if you disable mod_userdir protection for DefaultHost (nobody)? The preview should work. If you disable protection for yourdomain.com (youracct), then it will allow mod_userdir to work for http://yourdomain.com/~someacct. This is probably not what you want, so protection needs to be disabled for DefaultHost (nobody).