# Wildcard Subdomains & OS X Local Development **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 8, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wildcard-subdomains-os-x-local-development/128567 "2008-02-08T22:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newmonarch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7bcc69/32.png) [@newmonarch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newmonarch)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wildcard-subdomains-os-x-local-development/128567/1 "2008-02-08T22:58:06Z")
I’m using the simple account\_location plugin to have virtual subdomains on my app ([account.myapp.com](http://account.myapp.com) - see Basecamp, Blinksale, etc.) How do you go about setting up your OS X system to play nice? I’d like to use Apache & Mongrel. Notes: The only thing I’ve able to accomplish is hardcoding the subdomains directly in my hosts file. I can get “[test.localhost.com](http://test.localhost.com)” to work fine, that’s not really a wildcard subdomain. I wouldn’t be able to test the app’s ability to create and recognize subdomains I’d gotten the tip to setup a local DNS server, but I couldn’t get anything installed right. ---
**Author:** ![newmonarch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/7bcc69/32.png) [@newmonarch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newmonarch)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wildcard-subdomains-os-x-local-development/128567/2 "2008-02-09T01:02:37Z")
On 08 Feb 2008, at 22:57, NewMonarch wrote: > able to test the app’s ability to create and recognize subdomains > > I’d gotten the tip to setup a local DNS server, but I couldn’t get > anything installed right. [http://woss.name/2006/11/13/setting-up-local-name-server-on-mac-os-x/](http://woss.name/2006/11/13/setting-up-local-name-server-on-mac-os-x/) Used it on all my computers already and works perfectly. Best regards Peter De Berdt