Serving Your Customers 147
Previewing a Site
Once you published a site on the server, you may want to make sure that it functions
properly in the actual hosting environment. You can preview the site through your
favorite Web browser, even if the information on the domain name has not yet
propagated in the Domain Name System. Note that Adobe Flash and CGI scripts will
not work during preview. Also, site preview does not work for Web sites and Web
pages that include absolute paths to other files (like <a
href="http://domain.tld/image.gif">).
To preview a site:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click Site Preview in the Hosting group.
Deploying Databases
If your web server incorporates data processing applications or is designed to generate
web pages dynamically, you will likely need a database for storing and retrieving data.
You can either create a new database for a site or import the data from your previously
backed up MySQL or PostgreSQL database.
In this section:
Creating or Importing a Database ...................................................................... 148
Creating Database User Accounts .................................................................... 149
Changing Database User Passwords ................................................................ 149
Removing Database User Accounts .................................................................. 149
Removing Databases ........................................................................................ 150
