[support] Accessing multiple virtual sites on a development machine

[L.J.Bos]

You can download MAMP / XAMPP or WAMP for free. Follow the instructions and
you can access any (dev) site. Will take you about 15 minutes.

Regards,

Eljay

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Alison <alison at ssrv.org.au> wrote:
> > Hi, having spent the last few days building a new Centos 6.2 (RHEL 6)
> webserver and migrating 5 low-traffic Drupal virtual sites to it -
> successfully, now looking to use the old server as a development machine.
> Brain is a bit worn out so this may seem a silly question, but how can I
> access the development machine sites? Localhost just gives me the first
> Apache default listed site, and using the domain names takes me to the new
> server. Tried listening on a different port, didn't help, nor did using
> 127.0.0.1 - loopback. Must be an easier way than setting up a local DNS
> server and changing development machine domain names.
> >
> > Suggestions please.
> >
>
> Add your dev sites to the /etc/hosts file.
>
> 127.0.0.1 dev.site1.com
> 127.0.0.1 dev.site2.com
> etc.
>
> How are you accessing the dev sites?  I mean are you using a browser
> housed on the same host as the server or are you accessing from a
> different client?  You'll need to add the same entries in the client
> hosts file, if that is a windows PC it will be something like
> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
>
> --
> Earnie
> -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
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