{"id":10542,"date":"2012-05-22T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2013-05-24T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T12:10:20","slug":"accessing-your-sharepoint-site-while-the-dns-propagates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/kb\/article\/accessing-your-sharepoint-site-while-the-dns-propagates","title":{"rendered":"Accessing your SharePoint site and Project Server Instance while the DNS propagates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on Start and in search enter cmd.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 You will see the Command Prompt option.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 Right click and select Run as Administrator.<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on Yes.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 In the command prompt window; type the following.<\/p>\n<p><em>cd drivers\\etc<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0\u00a0 You will see the following in the command prompt.<\/p>\n<p><em>C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0\u00a0 Enter the following.<\/p>\n<p><em>notepad hosts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0 Scroll to the bottom of the file and based on the SharePoint variant yuou have enter the relevant details.\u00a0 Here are the relevant details<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For SharePoint Foundation:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>69.160.246.129\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &lt;&lt;sharepoint site URL&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>For example:\u00a0 If your SharePoint site URL is sharepoint.contoso.com then the entry on hostfile would look like this.<\/p>\n<p><em>69.160.246.129\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0sharepoint.contoso.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For SharePoint Standard and Enterprise:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>69.160.246.147\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &lt;&lt;sharepoint site URL&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>For example:\u00a0 If your sharepoint site URL is sharepoint.contoso.com then the entry on hostfile would look like this.<\/p>\n<p><em>69.160.246.147\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sharepoint.contoso.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For Project Server Instance:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>69.160.246.147\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &lt;&lt;Project Server site URL&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>For example:\u00a0 If your Project Server site URL is pm.contoso.com then the entry on hostfile would look like this.<\/p>\n<p><em>69.160.246.147\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 pm.contoso.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>NOTE<\/em>:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 If you are still unable to access the site then it means that your proxy server or your ISP overrides your systems host file settings and you will have to wait for the DNS to propagate and then you could try accessing the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on Start and in search enter cmd. 2.\u00a0\u00a0 You will see the Command Prompt option. 3.\u00a0\u00a0 Right click and select Run as Administrator. 4.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on Yes. 5.\u00a0\u00a0 In the command prompt window; type the following. cd drivers\\etc 6.\u00a0\u00a0 You will see the following in the command prompt. C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc&gt; 7.\u00a0\u00a0 Enter the following. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}