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When you click the button, you should see three options available:<\/p>\n
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Now you can simply navigate to your domain in your browser and it should load from your Rochen IP. You’ll notice the IP address is what is shown in your browser’s location bar, but what you have set as the “VHost Domain” is actually being sent to the server when you request a page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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