[support] Accessing multiple virtual sites on a development machine

[Jeff Brown]

What Earnie described is totally the simplest and easiest way to handle this:

In both machines' /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1    localhost    whatever
192.168.1.1    prod server1.prod    server2.prod    server3
192.168.1.3    dev    server1.dev    server2.dev    server4

... etc.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alison 
  To: support at drupal.org 
  Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [support] Accessing multiple virtual sites on a development machine



  My old server was running Centos 5.7, which didn't support the latest Intel Express chipset very well, hence the upgrade to Centos 6.2. Have now upgraded the development machine also to Centos 6.2 as well. 

  So I have 2 machines on the same network, both running Linux and both having five virtual Apache based Drupal websites, with the development machines replicating the production one in every respect. Use static IP's for both - production on 192.168.1.1 and development on 192.168.1.3. With a Windows 7 machine at 192.168.1.2, which I use for access. What I would like to do is make changes to the development systems, and when I'm happy migrate the changes to the production machine.

  Alison




  At 03:09 AM 6/02/2012, you wrote:

    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> 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. 
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