Comments on: 42foo: all the virtual hosts you need for your web development

By: Marcelo Silveira

Marcelo Silveira — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:41:14 +0000

Very useful, thanks!

By: Local development – multiple vhosts - NiGhTHawK

Local development – multiple vhosts - NiGhTHawK — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:54:35 +0000

[...] hosts setup. It is rather annoying to keep updating the /etc/hosts file. I came across “42foo: all the virtual hosts you need for your web development” which has helped alot. But this was not enough, the virtual hosts are still static, then I [...]

By: Florian

Florian — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:37:45 +0000

The problem herein lies that I, and also most people I’ve talked to about this, don’t use 127.0.0.1, but their LAN IP – so that you can have other machines and colleagues access that as well.

Which doesn’t really make it easier, or even possible if you have dhcp with a low lease time, but still I found myself editing the hosts file too often to even start with the 127.0.0.1 approach

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:59:47 +0000

I recently wrote a similar tutorial which includes a shell script to set up the /etc/hosts entry and virtual host. If you removed the line that writes to /etc/hosts and used a *.42foo.com domain, it could automate the apache set-up for you.

http://blog.kevinmehall.net/2009/apache-local-vhosts

By: Rick Harding

Rick Harding — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:51:00 +0000

Thanks for the notes. I’ve tried to find different ways to handle this. I eventually found the /etc/hosts file easy enough to script adding/removing entries from. I have an addwebhost script that just appends the dns and copies a template vhost file into apache’s config.