How do you setup subdomains on test server?

Rails
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For testing purposes I need to be able to setup my local testing server
to allow for subdomains, ie subdomain.localhost:3000. The way things
are set up now it will tell me the page cannot be found.

I included *.localhost in my /etc/hosts file, but that doesn’t seem to
do the trick.

Thanks for the help.

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On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Chris O. wrote:

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I usually set up things in my hosts file to point to my port 80 server
(which is normally Apache). I then have Apache resolve the subdomains
and send the requests via virtual hosts to the mongrels listening on
various ports. Seems like a lot for a local installation, but
sometimes you need to be able to test that kind of functionality.

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Steve R. wrote:

On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Chris O. wrote:

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I usually set up things in my hosts file to point to my port 80 server
(which is normally Apache). I then have Apache resolve the subdomains
and send the requests via virtual hosts to the mongrels listening on
various ports. Seems like a lot for a local installation, but
sometimes you need to be able to test that kind of functionality.

Thanks for the tip Steve.

It seems like it doesn’t like the *. If I use something like the
following it works fine, which is ok for testing.

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.0 localhost test1.localhost test2.localhost

I also found a really good article in the Advanced Rails Recipes book,
which went over other details related to session cookies and if the
client is being redirected by a custom url.

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On 29 Jan 2008, at 04:37, Chris O. wrote:

following it works fine, which is ok for testing.

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.0 localhost test1.localhost test2.localhost

I also found a really good article in the Advanced Rails Recipes book,
which went over other details related to session cookies and if the
client is being redirected by a custom url.

If you’re on MacOS X, you can use this blog post to make it more
general:

http://woss.name/2006/11/13/setting-up-local-name-server-on-mac-os-x/

I have a few domains I set up:
*.specificapplication.rails (this application uses subdomain
authentication)
*.dev.rails (this is a general domain I use for all other
applications, I use the subdomain part for the application name).
The big advantage of the last one, is that you get a new session for
each application.

myapp1.dev.rails:3000 => is logged in
myapp2.dev.rails:4000 => is also logged in

If you’re using localhost as the url for everything, the session is
shared if you switch between applications and that can be troublesome
at times.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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http://blog.7thcross.com/?p=7

Chris O. wrote:

For testing purposes I need to be able to setup my local testing server
to allow for subdomains, ie subdomain.localhost:3000. The way things
are set up now it will tell me the page cannot be found.

I included *.localhost in my /etc/hosts file, but that doesn’t seem to
do the trick.

Thanks for the help.