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windows equivalent to /etc/hosts while-one 03-26-2008
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Posted by while-one on March 26, 2008, 12:56 pm
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 When I make a new website, during development I create
a new virtual domain definition (using a temporary, made-up name)
in apache's configuration, and then bounce my server.

Then, on the client linux box I use for development,
I can add a line to my local /etc/hosts
file that looks like the following:

12.345.678.901 my-made-up-domain-name.com

Then I can look at that temporary virtual domain during development.
If my customer was a MacIntosh user, (s)he could use the same
/etc/hosts trick to view and critieque the development progress,
from his/her desktop Mac.

PUNCHLINE QUESTION:
How would you do that on a windows client?

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on March 26, 2008, 1:29 pm
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 while-one wrote:

> Then, on the client linux box I use for development,
> I can add a line to my local /etc/hosts
> file that looks like the following:
>
> 12.345.678.901 my-made-up-domain-name.com
>
> PUNCHLINE QUESTION:
> How would you do that on a windows client?

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on March 26, 2008, 3:05 pm
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> while-one wrote:
>
>> Then, on the client linux box I use for development,
>> I can add a line to my local /etc/hosts
>> file that looks like the following:
>>
>> 12.345.678.901 my-made-up-domain-name.com
>>
>> PUNCHLINE QUESTION:
>> How would you do that on a windows client?
>
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
>

If you only have one Windows client or just one development domain this
is not too bad else you have to update the hosts file each time you add
a development site and you have to synchronize all the host files.

I just run Bind, authoritative for the LAN and forward and caches for
the outside world...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Posted by while-one on March 26, 2008, 4:40 pm
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Thanks, that sounds like the smart way to do it.
....now I'll have to figure out how :-)

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on March 26, 2008, 8:46 pm
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while-one wrote:
> Thanks, that sounds like the smart way to do it.
> ....now I'll have to figure out how :-)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nicolai+Langfeldt+DNS+HOWTO&btnG=Google+Search
Nicolai Langfeldt DNS HOWTO - Google Search
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Take care,

Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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