[support] Accessing multiple virtual sites on a development machine

[Jamie Holly]

For Windows machines, I suggest using Acrylic DNS proxy to handle the 
DNS for multiple sites. I've got info on it here:

http://drupal.org/node/32715#comment-2579138

Basically all my client sites on the devel machine get the TLD .dev (ie: 
mysite.dev) . I've been doing this for a few years now and love it.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 2/5/2012 11:04 AM, L.J.Bos wrote:
> 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 <mailto:earnie at users.sourceforge.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Alison <alison at ssrv.org.au
>     <mailto: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 <http://dev.site1.com>
>     127.0.0.1 dev.site2.com <http://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.
>
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> Eljay Bos
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