hosts conf. file

rotten_yellow · 06-14-2008, 01:33 PM

Hi!
I notice that I can add different hostnames to point to localhost or different IP's in my /etc/hosts file. For example I can add:

Quote:

127.0.0.1 somename

and I can set up virtual hosts to apache and work on different sites, without them being in the same document root folder and subfolders. Is there a way I can make subdomains work with this?
for example if I go to http://subdomain.somename and it would still work? for now only hostname without subdomains work. Any suggestions? Thanks!

trickykid · 06-14-2008, 11:48 PM

The hosts file will support this.

It's actually meant to take it in this format:

Code:

IP      hostname.domainname hostname

So you could easily put in a subdomain.

Code:

192.168.1.100      mydomain.domain.com mydomain