windows equivalent to /etc/hosts

[while-one]

When I make a new website, during development I create
a new virtual domain definition (using a temporary, made-up name)
in apache's configuration, and then bounce my server.

Then, on the client linux box I use for development,
I can add a line to my local /etc/hosts
file that looks like the following:

12.345.678.901 my-made-up-domain-name.com

Then I can look at that temporary virtual domain during development.
If my customer was a MacIntosh user, (s)he could use the same
/etc/hosts trick to view and critieque the development progress,
from his/her desktop Mac.

PUNCHLINE QUESTION:
How would you do that on a windows client?

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Re: windows equivalent to /etc/hosts

while-one wrote:

Then, on the client linux box I use for development,
I can add a line to my local /etc/hosts
file that looks like the following:
>
12.345.678.901 my-made-up-domain-name.com
>
PUNCHLINE QUESTION:
How would you do that on a windows client?

C:\WINDOWS\syst em32\drivers\et c\hosts

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[Jonathan N. Little]

Re: windows equivalent to /etc/hosts

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

while-one wrote:
>

>Then, on the client linux box I use for development,
>I can add a line to my local /etc/hosts
>file that looks like the following:
>>
>12.345.678.9 01 my-made-up-domain-name.com
>>
>PUNCHLINE QUESTION:
>How would you do that on a windows client?

>
C:\WINDOWS\syst em32\drivers\et c\hosts
>

If you only have one Windows client or just one development domain this
is not too bad else you have to update the hosts file each time you add
a development site and you have to synchronize all the host files.

I just run Bind, authoritative for the LAN and forward and caches for
the outside world...

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[while-one]

Re: windows equivalent to /etc/hosts

Thanks, that sounds like the smart way to do it.
.....now I'll have to figure out how :-)

[Jonathan N. Little]

Re: windows equivalent to /etc/hosts

while-one wrote:

Thanks, that sounds like the smart way to do it.
....now I'll have to figure out how :-)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nicolai+Langfeldt+DNS+HOWTO&btnG=Google+Search

Nicolai Langfeldt DNS HOWTO - Google Search
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