Tag Archives: howto

Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X

13 May, 2009 – 4:44 pm

A while ago I wrote up a method for switching between /etc/hosts files. That post is pretty popular and clearly been useful to a few people.
Since then I’ve actually extended this method into a tool that can manage multiple /etc/hosts files. Using this new method you can have a folder that you can add hosts [...]

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Fast switching your /etc/hosts file in Mac OS X

6 March, 2008 – 11:08 am

UPDATE: This method has been extended and superseded, find out about the “new improved” method here.

Web developers often have reason to fake a host name’s associated IP address by editing their /etc/hosts file.
The peculiarities of the development environment we use here at WordPress.com mean I find myself switching back and forth between two /etc/hosts configurations [...]

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