A question from a rookie to the hard core. I am using name based 
hosting with Apache and I want to test my sites before I run them live. 
I have heard that adding the domain to the hosts file temporarily will 
allow me to fool my server into thinking that it is looking at the 
actual domain because it checks the hosts file before dns. Is this 
true? Is there a better way to do this?

Don Fitzsimmons
Lacky/Grunt
Tornado Design
Cell: 623-696-1298
www.tornadodesign.com