Add a fake host for development purposes

iwanttodeletemyaccount () — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:39:31 GMT

I don't like all these "localhost:3001", "localhost:3001", etc. urls so I use vhosts in apache (that is a proxy balancer for a mongrel cluster on my machine. This script helps me to add required information for my fake domain in the /etc/hosts and apache configs



#!/usr/local/bin/ruby



HOSTS_FILE = "/etc/hosts"

VHOSTS_FILE = "/Library/Apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"



if $*.size < 2

  puts %{addhost.rb - creates a fake domain and bind it to the working rails app

    

USAGE: addhost development_hostname mongrel_port



Example: if you have a rails app on a localhost:3002 and you want

         to bind it to the myrailsapp.dev than run:

         addhost myrailsapp.dev 3002

  }

  

  exit 1

end



dev_host = $*[0]

mongrel_port = $*[1]



# Adding to the hosts file (absolute path must be in the HOSTS_FILE; usually /etc/hosts)

unless IO.read(HOSTS_FILE) =~ /^127.0.0.1\t#{dev_host}$/

  File.open(HOSTS_FILE, "a") do |file|

    file << "\n127.0.0.1\t#{dev_host}"

  end

end



unless IO.read(VHOSTS_FILE) =~ /^\tServerName #{dev_host}$/

  File.open(VHOSTS_FILE, "a") do |file|

    file << %{



  ServerName #{dev_host}

  

  ProxyPass / http://#{dev_host}:#{mongrel_port}/

  ProxyPassReverse / http://#{dev_host}:#{mongrel_port}

  ProxyPreserveHost on



    }

  end

end

Quickly append a short hostname alias to /etc/hosts

peter (Peter Cooperx) — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:30:53 GMT

sudo echo -e "`dig +short che.st a`\tc" >> /etc/hosts

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Add a fake host for development purposes

Quickly append a short hostname alias to /etc/hosts