[thelist] Domainname for local use

[Liz Lawson]

Lauri

you can set it up in your hosts file in the windows dir (if you have
hosts.sam instead, delete the .sam from the filename)


127.0.0.1       www.bluewidgets.com

And then you need to set up a virtual host in your Apache conf files
including the line

servername www.bluewidgets.com


That works for me with Windows and apache: you may need to do some searching
before you find what works for your setup. Don't know if you need to do
anything in omnihttpd.

(And you won't be able to view the real www.bluewidgets.com as long as you
have that line in your hosts file.)

HTH

Liz




-----Original Message-----
From: Lauri Vain <optima at hot.ee>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Date: 08 December 2000 17:38
Subject: [thelist] Domainname for local use


>Hello evolters,
>
>I use Apache and OmniHTTPd on a windows box.
>
>Can anybody tell me if there's any software out there that would make your
local
>computer appear (for your local computer ONLY) as some other domain which
it
>really doesn't host. Didn't get it, right?
>
>Basically what I want to do is when I type into my browser window the URL
>www.bluewidgets.com then it would go to get the files from my own server
>(127.0.0.1) rather than the real server which hosts this site. Lots of the
links
>in the projects I do are absolute URLs for one reason or another. It would
make
>testing/developing a lot easier if  I didn't have to change all of the URLs
in
>the doc to work on my computer and back later.
>
>Yours,
>Lauri
>--
>Hope it made sense to you (more or less)
>
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