Re: /etc/hosts and DNS Behavior

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

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Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
| Then, I'd like to be able to modify /etc/hosts, launch another instance
| of Epiphany that used the modified version of /etc/hosts.
|
| Each instance would remember the hosts file in effect at launch.
|
| This way, I could simultaneously review a development and production
| version of the same website merely by modifying my hosts file.
|
| If there's a system-level or Epiphany workaround that I'm not thinking
| of, that'd be great, too!

There is only one instance of Epiphany running on your system per user.
When you launch it again, new window or not, it just latches onto the
currently-running process.

Not to mention, you're talking about what Mozilla should be doing, not
Epiphany.

Furthermore, /etc/hosts should not be abused in that manner. It's meant
to match IP addresses to hosts. It's meant to be permanent.

What you as a web developer should consider using relative URLs. Open
one browser to http://www.test-server.com/test and another to
http://www.test-server.com, where /test is the directory of your test
site. If your pages all use relative URLs, both sites should work properly.

If you need relative URLs that start with "/", it gets trickier. In PHP,
what I usually do is define a "DOC_ROOT" in my global config file for
each checked-out copy of a site. I print all URLs with DOC_ROOT
preceding them. (I realize this DOC_ROOT could be dynamically generated
with some clever substr() stuff, but I never bothered thinking about it.)

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Adam Hooper
adamh densi com
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