The way I work on a new setup of a live site is to edit my host file. Here is a small tutorial on how to access and edit your host file. It's pretty fast and simple and it forces your computer to point to a different IP Address for the given URL till you remove or comment out the change. After you have setup the site and are happy with everything you can then update your DNS records, comment out the changes to your host file, and after the DNS record has updated see the newly created live site.
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