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Often you will want to preview your hosted domain on a new server before you have updated the DNS on the domain.

This can be achieved by editing your computer's 'hosts' file to fool your local browsers into thinking that your domain points to a different IP address.

The hosts file lives in different places on different operating systems.

This is a useful post on how to modify the hosts file on various operating systems.

www.ruhanirabin.com/hosts-file-configuration-windows-linux-and-mac/