Hosts

I just tried it and it worked okay for me.

ipaddress        www.domain.com

and it let me go right to it.

nathan

On Thursday 27 February 2003 05:20 pm, 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?
>
> Don Fitzsimmons
> Lacky/Grunt
> Tornado Design
> Cell: 623-696-1298
> www.tornadodesign.com
>
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