On Oct 7, 2011, at 07:42, Jan Keirse wrote: > For example you should be able to create one apache httpd.conf containing > num_of_sites of virtual hosts, and an /etc/hosts > (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows) containing 172.0.0.1 > site1.local, 172.0.0.2 site2.local,... > The /etc/hosts can be the same for all hosts and users, the httpd.conf > will contain a little variation for each platform you use, but the virtual > hosts will all be the same. > These files can then be deployed to all people involved.
You don't need to distribute an /etc/hosts file if you instead run a local DNS server that handles those names.
