Aksela Test Stages

1. The IP address of the CDN URL shared with you by the Medianova Technical Sales team or created via a Free trial can be found as follows.

• The CDN URL is pinged by opening the Command Prompt. (CDN URL = <zone_name>.mncdn.com)

 Example: ping <zone_name>.mncdn.com

2. The IP address retrieved above is written to the “host” file of your computer.

• Open the Run tab by pressing the Windows key + R.

• Type system32 in the search bar and click ok.

• On the screen that opens, navigate to the drivers folder and open it.

• Navigate to the etc folder in the “drivers” folder and open it.

• Right-click on your “host” file and choose open with. Edit it with one of the applications such as Notepad or Notepad++.
  

   

• Add the IP address you obtained in the first step and the website you want to reach using this IP address and save the file as shown below.
  
  

 

• Clear the browser cache. Make a request to the page by typing yourdomain.com in the address bar. After opening the page, right-click on an empty area and select inspect. The Network tab will open. Verify that the .html file comes from Medianova when you see the MNCDN description under the Server tab.