Thanks for the advice.
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Bob George wrote:

> "Don Fitz" <dfitzsimmons@cox.net> 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?
>
> If /etc/host.conf is set to read the hosts file first (order 
> hosts,bind),
> you should be fine doing it by editing the hosts file. I recall this 
> setting
> was previously in /etc/resolv.conf with other distributions, so do 
> check the
> manpages for your distribution.
>
> What you probably want to do is add the FULL hostname (FQDN) to 
> /etc/hosts
> rather than just the domain name (i.e. www.domain.tld) to keep it 
> simple.
>
> Setting up local DNS isn't particularly complicated, but it strikes me 
> as
> cumbersome if you just want to quickly test web pages.
>
> Just don't forget that you've set it this way, and it should be easy to
> add/remove entries as required!
>
> - Bob
>
>
>
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