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.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Eljay<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Alison <<a href="mailto:alison@ssrv.org.au">alison@ssrv.org.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> 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.<br>
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> Suggestions please.<br>
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</div>Add your dev sites to the /etc/hosts file.<br>
<br>
127.0.0.1 <a href="http://dev.site1.com" target="_blank">dev.site1.com</a><br>
127.0.0.1 <a href="http://dev.site2.com" target="_blank">dev.site2.com</a><br>
etc.<br>
<br>
How are you accessing the dev sites? I mean are you using a browser<br>
housed on the same host as the server or are you accessing from a<br>
different client? You'll need to add the same entries in the client<br>
hosts file, if that is a windows PC it will be something like<br>
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.<br>
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