Preview a Website on a cPanel Server

Posted on 25 September, 2016

The cPanel control panel allows you to preview a website using the IP address of the server. This feature is useful to preview the website before changing the DNS records for the domain.

Process

• Confirm that the website preview option is not disabled. To confirm this, login to the WHM control panel and go to Home » Security Center » Apache mod_userdir Tweak and confirm that Enablemod_userdirProtection is unchecked. This will enable the preview option for all the domains.

• If the Enablemod_userdirProtection option is checked, you can enable the preview feature for a specific domain by excluding it as shown below:

• Once you have confirmed that the website preview is enabled for the domain, you can preview the website using following URL:http://1.2.3.4/~username

o   Where 1.2.3.4 is IP address assigned to the domain

o   Username is the cPanel account username

• You can find the IP address and username by logging into the WHM control panel and going to : Home » Account Information » List Accounts