View website using IP address in Forge

@peterdickins did you ever checked cloudflare? You can register your domain there and then let cloudflare handle all of your dns stuff. The beauty of it is that any change to IP will be more less visible immediately everywhere in the world.

Oh and it is free for basic usage ;-)

Enjoy!

Edit the hosts file on your local machine. On unix based systems it is usually located at /etc/hosts. For Windows it should be C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts but you can Google cause I might be wrong.

1. Edit /etc/hosts by opening it with user that has admin access
2. Add lines for both sites in following format 123.123.123.123 site1.com and 123.123.123.124 site2.com
3. Overwrite that file by saving it
4. Open incognito mode and type in site1.com in your browser

Note: replace 123.123.123.123 and 123.123.123.124 with actual IP addresses.

This can be done by just adding 'default_server' to your nginx block. This is what is shown for the 'default' site when you first create a forge server. It will only work for 1 site at once though for testing.

Something like this:

server {
    listen 443 ssl default_server;
    listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
    server_name default;

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