I am afraid
you cannot do that then. If you have no DNS
entry for beta.sitename.org no browser
no nothing knows how to resolve this... it's a
subdomain... did not read everything but you can
edit apache conf and cannot edit DNS entries??
Well, I can on the box (/etc/hosts), but not on the
network, at least not without buying another domain name?
But changing it on the box's /etc/hosts file won't help
when I'm browsing in from Topeka or Kalamazoo.
Unless I'm still fundamentally misunderstanding what
I'm supposed to be doing?