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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What Earnie described is totally the simplest and
easiest way to handle this:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In both machines' /etc/hosts</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>127.0.0.1
localhost whatever</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>192.168.1.1 prod
server1.prod server2.prod
server3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>192.168.1.3 dev
server1.dev server2.dev server4</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>... etc.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=alison@ssrv.org.au href="mailto:alison@ssrv.org.au">Alison</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=support@drupal.org
href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:23
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [support] Accessing multiple
virtual sites on a development machine</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>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.
<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Alison<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>At 03:09
AM 6/02/2012, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">For Windows machines, I suggest
using Acrylic DNS proxy to handle the DNS for multiple sites. I've got info
on it here:<BR><BR><A
href="http://drupal.org/node/32715#comment-2579138">http://drupal.org/node/32715#comment-2579138</A><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><BR><PRE>Jamie Holly
<A href="http://www.intoxination.net">http://www.intoxination.net</A>
<A href="http://www.hollyit.net/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.hollyit.net</A></PRE><FONT
face="Courier New, Courier"></FONT><BR>On 2/5/2012 11:04 AM, L.J.Bos wrote:
<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">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.
<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Eljay<BR><BR>On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:46 AM,
Earnie Boyd <<A href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">
earnie@users.sourceforge.net</A>> wrote:
<DL>
<DD>On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Alison <<A
href="mailto:alison@ssrv.org.au">alison@ssrv.org.au</A>> wrote:
<DD>> 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.
<DD>>
<DD>> Suggestions please.
<DD>><BR>
<DD>Add your dev sites to the /etc/hosts file.<BR>
<DD>127.0.0.1 <A href="http://dev.site1.com">dev.site1.com</A>
<DD>127.0.0.1 <A href="http://dev.site2.com">dev.site2.com</A>
<DD>etc.<BR>
<DD>How are you accessing the dev sites? I mean are you using a
browser
<DD>housed on the same host as the server or are you accessing from a
<DD>different client? You'll need to add the same entries in the
client
<DD>hosts file, if that is a windows PC it will be something like
<DD>c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.<FONT color=#888888>
<DD>--
<DD>Earnie
<DD>-- <A
href="https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd">https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd</A></FONT>
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