test hosting - need to buy domain?

zom

Is there any option to use your hosting without actually buy/register domain? I have client with their website hosted already on their server and I look for place to build new one for them. If ready whey can seamlessly move from old to new. But I need web access to new one before domain migration. I know some hosting allows to access www content without specific domain attached - just using "internal" hosting provider URL? Is it working with blacknight?

mneylon

There is a temporary URL feature available, or you could just use your hosts file ..

zom

Blacknight wrote: »

There is a temporary URL feature available, or you could just use your hosts file ..

I found temporary URL on your hosting working, but it seems like I have to have registered domain to use application form Application Vault. I presume joomla/wordpress/drupal will work with temporary URL if I install them manually?

The Temporary URL's can work with such installs but some will redirect to the configured URL within the application.

zom

I installed Joomla manually (Shared Hosting) and I found permissions/ownership to be complete pain.
1 - Everything I uploaded by FTP has FTP ownership and can't be write/changed by Joomla.
2 - If I change permissions to 777, I can write/change from Joomla. But then It takes 48/48 (Apache) ownership and it can't be writen/changed it from FTP!
3 - If I do anything wrong from Joomla (delete file or plugin) I can't repair from FTP - it's not writable!!
4 - If I would like to remove all Joomla installation (using FTP), I will stuck with this folders/files created by Joomla. They CANT be removed by FTP. They will stay on the server FOREVER??

Is there any way to have access to change folder/files ownerships? I presume that's because you use php-mod method instead of fastcgi. But I am little terrified with this 48/48 folders I can't do anything about.

We would suggest running php in fastcgi mode and support can reset the permissions if you log a request with them via https://help.blacknight.com/home

zom

I don't have domain attached to my shared hosting yet, so I will check fastcgi mode later.

uglybunz

zom wrote: »

I installed Joomla manually (Shared Hosting) and I found permissions/ownership to be complete pain.
1 - Everything I uploaded by FTP has FTP ownership and can't be write/changed by Joomla.
2 - If I change permissions to 777, I can write/change from Joomla. But then It takes 48/48 (Apache) ownership and it can't be writen/changed it from FTP!
3 - If I do anything wrong from Joomla (delete file or plugin) I can't repair from FTP - it's not writable!!
4 - If I would like to remove all Joomla installation (using FTP), I will stuck with this folders/files created by Joomla. They CANT be removed by FTP. They will stay on the server FOREVER??

Is there any way to have access to change folder/files ownerships? I presume that's because you use php-mod method instead of fastcgi. But I am little terrified with this 48/48 folders I can't do anything about.

You can use a web-based file manager like this one to delete files that are owned by the web process:
http://extplorer.sourceforge.net/

It can delete the files because it's running under the same web process that created/uploaded them.

Be sure not to leave an application like this where it could be found/accessed by 3rd parties!

HTH, uglybunz