Let Client’s Preview Their Website (Before Connecting Their Domain)

Sometimes, when setting up a website for a client, you may want to let them preview their site-in-progress, before connecting their live domain name to it.

You don’t want to show the “restaurantengine.com” portion of the URL.  So here are instructions for setting up a preview for your client, without showing “restaurantengine.com” in the URL.

NOTE:  This requires that you have your own website with your own hosting provider.

The way this works is you will use an Iframe to display the client’s website on your own domain.  Follow these instructions for setting this up:

1. Contact us to request your client preview Iframe file.
2. We will provide you with a special index.html file that you will upload to your own website (on your own hosting provider).
3. Create a folder on your website, perhaps using the client’s name.  For example, if you’re website is example.com and your client’s name is “Johnny’s Italian Restaurant”, then you might create a folder on your website like example.com/johnnys.
4. Upload the index.html file to that folder you just created.  Using the example above, you would upload the file to example.com/johnnys/index.html
5. Edit the code inside the index.html file.  On line number #24, you should see something like this:
   <iframe id=”demoframe” src=”http://democore.restaurantengine.com” width=”100%” frameborder=”0″ marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″></iframe>
6. Change the URL in the src=”…” to match your client’s site URL on restaurant engine.
7. Now view the preview here:  http://example.com/johnnys (example)  …Your client’s website is displayed, but they only see your domain name, not restaurantengine.com.