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Today’s ProTip from Snappy is going to be the one-two punch of accessing your website via a “temporary” URL and then applying that knowledge to accessing your webmail as well. What is a “temporary” URL, and why do we keep enclosing it in quotation marks?  Let’s answer the last part first: it’s not actually temporary, in fact it’s very much permanent.  We can elaborate on that by addressing what exactly is this thing to which we refer as a temporary URL.  First things first, here is the associated KnowledgeBase article: https://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/lets-get-started/temporary-url A temporary URL is simply a means to access your website’s files without invoking the use of an actual domain name.  There are multiple circumstances where this might be beneficial, one of which would be while your domain name is in propagation.  As you can see in the KB article, the actual syntax of a temporary URL varies dependent upon your hosting platform.  For our purposes, we’ll stick with cPanel for our lesson here today, but the same logic applies across all platforms. Continue reading →