Comments on: Set a local domain to ease local development http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/28/set-a-local-domain-to-ease-local-development/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Thu, 24 May 2012 13:09:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andy Jones http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/28/set-a-local-domain-to-ease-local-development/#comment-98406 Andy Jones Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:36:32 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1215#comment-98406 Does this mean I can do without MAMP? Does this mean I can do without MAMP?

]]> By: Frank Leigh http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/28/set-a-local-domain-to-ease-local-development/#comment-97733 Frank Leigh Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:34:01 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1215#comment-97733 There is more to it than that. The main benefit is your local websites will have private sessions from one another thus preventing session overwriting when you swicth between one site and another using the same browser instance. There is more to it than that. The main benefit is your local websites will have private sessions from one another thus preventing session overwriting when you swicth between one site and another using the same browser instance.

]]> By: hypnopixel http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/28/set-a-local-domain-to-ease-local-development/#comment-97472 hypnopixel Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:41:32 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1215#comment-97472 @Woodgie, ah, I see that. And for brevity, the alias could be shorthanded to, say, lh.d, lh.qa, and lh.p for dev, qa and production. Yeah, the apache config twiddling needs to be alluded to, at least ;-] @Woodgie, ah, I see that. And for brevity, the alias could be shorthanded to, say, lh.d, lh.qa, and lh.p for dev, qa and production. Yeah, the apache config twiddling needs to be alluded to, at least ;-]

]]> By: Woodgie http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/28/set-a-local-domain-to-ease-local-development/#comment-97456 Woodgie Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:55:07 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1215#comment-97456 It's prettier? It also allows you to create more than one 'site' in conjunction with a bit of apache config twiddling. Something along the lines of: site1.domain.whatever site2.domain.whatever Don't ask me how, this is a comment, not a hint! :-) It’s prettier?

It also allows you to create more than one ‘site’ in conjunction with a bit of apache config twiddling. Something along the lines of:
site1.domain.whatever
site2.domain.whatever

Don’t ask me how, this is a comment, not a hint!

:-)

]]> By: hypnopixel http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/28/set-a-local-domain-to-ease-local-development/#comment-97453 hypnopixel Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:58:24 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=1215#comment-97453 Hi Bill, how is this different than using 'localhost' which is already aliased? regards, aitch Hi Bill,

how is this different than using ‘localhost’ which is already aliased?

regards,

aitch

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