Run Notepad.exe as Administrator Open C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (no file extension) Add "127.0.0.1 www.mydomain.com" to the last line Open web server and configure to route by hostname "www.mydomain.com"
Windows (by default) looks to your hosts file for name resolution before checking a DNS server. I do something like this for all of my dev sites. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:52 PM, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > > I've started working on an MSOC application > and was setting up some test code which uses > the cgi.server_name as the determining value > for setting all the specific site variables. > > Then, I realized that this wouldn't work for > local development using "http://localhost" because > there would be not cgi.server_name (except localhost) > to reference in the browser. > > I guess I can set up a domain in the database > for "localhost" and treat that the same way I would > treat a regular domain, but I wouldn't be able to > switch between various sites locally that way. > > Is an MSOC app testable for various domains only > on a server, where DNS is running, as opposed to locally? > > (There is probably a simple solution for this, but > I've been reading and thinking about this so much > I "can't see the forest for the trees!" > > ??? > > Rick > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342542 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm