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Is there a tool, that allows an individual to temporarily switch between different etc/hosts configurations, without setting up a dns?

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I would like to quickly change the etc/hosts config file, so that project1.com forwards to a local IP like 192.168.10.50 without changing information in our DNS server.

Why?

We are developing several bigger cms projects. The cms is developed inside a virtual machine. Sometimes we have to make bigger changes to a cms system that is already in production. A developer needs to access the productive version of the site and some minutes later he wants to redirect all requests to the local virtual machine.

A tool, that can easily swap between different etc/hosts configuration files would be ideal.

If possible don't want the users to manually edit the etc/hosts file.

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You could just write a batch job that could be run to swap the hosts file from one version to another when run.

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Wes, this wuld work. But I have multiple projects, so the batch file could not know which of the etc/hosts configurations it should take. – Richard May 25 '11 at 17:05
Make separate .bat-file for each project – gelraen May 25 '11 at 17:28
Or if you named the hosts file the same as the project name, you could use %1 in the batch file, then set up multiple shortcuts to the same batch file, each with the target sethost.bat project1, sethost.bat project2 and so on – DerfK May 25 '11 at 17:57
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