I'll have to give that a shot. Thanks for the tip.

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 10:36 PM, Craig White wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:20, Don Fitz wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> -----
> It might work...I've never tried it, perhaps someone else knows the
> answer to that question.
>
> I KNOW that you can install dns (keep the firewall blocks on) and allow
> only localhost to access it and set up zone files for the domains on
> that machine and change /etc/resolv.conf to point to 127.0.0.1
> (localhost) for dns resolution. That certainly works.
>
> Craig
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