Overriding the DNS for a domain is not working

Question

My clients' website is live at this moment, and I am migrating the website to my new Web Hosting Server. I already uploaded the site to the new server.

Before changing the DNS, I am testing the site by modifying my hosts' file (windows local machine) to override the DNS for the domain.

123.123.123.123 www.thedomain.com

Then after that, I visited the URL. The old website is still showing, not the new one. Tried to ping it using Command Prompt and the IP address is the IP of the new server. But trying to ping it online shows the IP of the old server.

Why is that? Is there anything I could do to view the newly uploaded site?

*This is the result when I tried to run curl -I www.thedomain.com using the command prompt.

Does `curl -I www.thedomain.com` go to the right site? Does it perhaps redirect you to the old one? — Sebastian Stark, May 03 '18 at 06:51
Can you put `curl -I www.thedomain.com` in the command line (of course replace with your real domain), run it, and paste the output here? — Sebastian Stark, May 03 '18 at 11:31
@SebastianStark Tried what you've said, I updated my post for the result. But I don't know exactly the meaning of it. — c.k, May 04 '18 at 01:14
The output should tell you if you're connected to the correct site. Only you can tell if that's the case. At least it shows that there's no redirect in place. — Sebastian Stark, May 04 '18 at 07:03

Alessandro Carini · Answer 1 · 2018-05-04T15:48:29.897

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Please explain "But trying to ping it online shows the IP of the old server."

Try to put thedomain.com also in in hosts file, plus any other 3d used in your project (e.g. images.thdomain.com)

addendum:

If you use some sort of proxy the connection is made from your proxy and modifying your local host file is not relevant

edited May 04 '18 at 15:48

answered May 03 '18 at 09:02

Alessandro Carini

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What I mean is looking the server ip of the domain online using https://asm.ca.com/en/ping.php, I already put the domain name in host file as I mentioned above. – c.k May 03 '18 at 11:06
This is not going to work: Writing stuff in your hosts (either Linux /etc/hosts or Windows \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) works only locally on your system. – Alessandro Carini May 03 '18 at 14:53
Well, I already did that on my local machine. I put the IP of the new server together with the domain name. But not working. – c.k May 04 '18 at 00:31
What is VideoCacheBox? – Alessandro Carini May 04 '18 at 08:08

Overriding the DNS for a domain is not working

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