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HTTP Logging Proxies

I want to implement a proxy that records and replays requests made to specific hosts. So that I can stub out external service requests when testing an application. What is the best way to do this? ...
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How to get global ip for virtualbox guest os

I'm trying to setup ubuntu server in virtualbox. Host is Windows 7 x64 Guest is Ubuntu 11.10 x64 All I want to do is, to make this server accessible from internet. How can I do it? Please help.
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How to determine server name in Apache cent-OS?

the server names/identifiers in this question are fictional The maillog file is getting 100,000 entries per day, despite only a few hundred actual e-mails being sent, or other type of activity daily ...
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selectively route specific sites through different NIC [closed]

My work blocks access to music streaming sites to cut down on bandwidth costs. I have an android phone that I plug in that will give me a separate NIC for internet access. I've been playing with ...
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Cannot login to mysql after setting incorrect mysql privileges/host

On CentOS 5.x I used webmin panel and I was in mysql settings, I was trying to allow "root" to login from my home ip in addition to localhost. In the hosts list I had "any" or "localhost", I tried to ...
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Effects of mis-configured hosts file?

SSH and sudo were starting very slowly because /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts did not match. After adding a line for the hostname in the hosts file, the initial 2-4 second delay no longer occurs. At ...
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Simple DNS Server or Tool for Local Web App Development

When I develop web-apps I sometimes have to hard-code full URLs into my generated markup. Even though one can generally get by using relative URLs a la <a ...
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Mapping all subdomains of a domain to an IP

How should I set up a server to map all subdomains of a domain to an IP? I wish I could do something like that in the hosts file: 127.0.0.1 *.example.com
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Does not having FQDN in /etc/hosts cause any problems?

Just been looking through some servers and seen that the external ip is set up with the full and short names the wrong way round, e.g.: a.b.c.d myserver myserver.mycompany.org What sort of problems ...
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Wildcard certificate with separate certificates for each host

We're using a wildcard certificate on several hosts, which right now means that we have to distribute the wildcard cert's private key to each machine, which is a security problem. On the other hand, ...
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Create custom host file

I want to create a host file on a custom location (ex. /opt/app/hosts) with the same formatting as the /etc/hosts file. The reason for this is that I want to manually query a DNS server for a ...
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Can a long /etc/hosts file slow DNS lookup?

I'm facing a little question here. I have a long /etc/hosts file. (working in the web, so I'm hosting a lot of sites locally for developping). Let's says it is about 40, 50 lines long. All ...
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Changing in hosts file

I have configured my website from VS2010 to use IIS 7.5. Then I added this line to my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 something.com This correctly goes to IIS 7.5 default screen However I want this to go to ...
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Editing hosts file - will removing default settings cause trouble?

I'm running a CentOS 5.4 machine and had trouble getting sendmail to work. After a bunch of researching, I found out that I needed to change my servers FQDN. /etc/hosts had the following: ...
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MAMP Virtual Hosts not working

So I'm pretty sure I set up my Virtual Hosts right, but they don't seem to be working. Yes, I have uncommented the vhosts include from httpd.conf. All I get when I try to access the virtual hosts ...
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Redirect incoming traffic for a domain to another local ip on same host

I have a server running Win 2008 R2, on that machine a run virtualbox where I run multiple ubuntu instances for webservers. I also have a router that redirects all traffic on port 80 to that machine. ...
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How can I keep my /etc/hosts file up to date with multiple ec2 instances

Have any of you come up with a good way to keep the /etc/hosts file on multiple EC2 instances up to date? Instances go down.. some new instances get created... and internal IPs change. How can I make ...
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Configuring Apache 2.2 on localhost, getting “It works!”

I am trying to get Apache work and here is my configuration: System32/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 rss.local httpd-vhosts.conf NameVirtualHost *:80 <Virtualhost *:80> ...
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Apache hosts; how to remove host name?

I have two domains that are redirected to my server IP. I removed (I think) all entires from /etc/apache/sites-available/* that was responsible for resolving those host names. Now when I'm trying to ...
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Adding virtual hosts without restarting Apache?

I've got Apache 2.28, on Web-Developer Server Suite, PHP 5.38, MySQL latest version, and have got about 5 virtualhosts. This is my latest virtual host, which was a dynamic one: UseCanonicalName Off ...
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use proxy to mimic hosts file behavior

I have a requirement where i need to access an intranet site on my mobile phone. the site is hosted on my machine, my mobile is connected to the Wifi but it doesn't resolve what http://mymachine ...
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Is it good to define localhost as 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file?

I just came across a server that does not respond to things like ping localhost or mysql -h localhost - I believe this is because localhost is not defined in the hosts file. On just about every ...
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Hosts file map localhost to existing domain not subdirectory* updated

I am locally developing a website via MAMP and rather than messing with the changing all of my links and etc later on I opened up etc/hosts and added this line 127.0.0.1 localhost mysite.com so ...
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Show development and test site with same domain on browser

I have a situation where domain.com (is the live server - A record points to this server). We have another domain.com (which is the test server - users manually set hosts file). Users would like to ...
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*.domain.local in my /etc/hosts

Can I set access to all subdomains in my local domain in etc/hosts file? Like 127.0.0.1 localhost *.domain.local Now it looks like 127.0.0.1 localhost domain.local mail.domain.local ...
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Can't edit file after `chattr +i`

After chattr +i /etc/hosts I can't edit this file (obviously). But how can I revert it back. I need to edit this file and then lock again. UPD ls -l /etc/hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 274 ...
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How to check if the hosts in your /etc/hosts file are up or down?

What automated ways are there of checking if the hosts in my /etc/hosts file are up?
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hostname and hostname -f are backwards?

When I run the command hostname (on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server) it returns 'mail.mydomain.com' When I run hostname -f I get 'mail' as a response. These seem backwards to me, shouldn't hostname -f ...
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Domain forwarding or masking on local machine only?

I'm sad to have to ask this question, but I'm not even sure of what to call what I'm trying to do, so Google isn't much help. I'm doing some work on a company website from outside the company's ...
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Apache 2 Virtual Hosts no working on OSX 10.6

This is my first MacBook and I'm trying to get virtual hosts up and running so as it's going to be my dev machine. I've got apache/php/mysql running fine, the problem is that what ever address I go ...
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How can /etc/hosts be used to associate multiple domains with a single IP?

I have a single IP (81.174.66.48) and I would like to use /etc/hosts to associate multiple domains with that IP. Currently my hosts file looks like this: 81.174.66.48 nerto.it nerto I would like ...
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How to reload /etc/hosts file in AIX without reboot

How to reload /etc/hosts file in AIX without reboot? I am trying to ping a new entry but it still shows previous version. Thanks
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Set up multiple servers behind a NAT

I am currently trying to set up a network with both a secure webserver and an internal openvpn server. The webserver is running windows 2008 and the vpn network is running the Access server from ...
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Howto use Apache virtualHost with etc/hosts

I'm trying to have http://www.mysite.com and http://test.mysite.com running on a production webserver, and now I'm doing some basic tests in local machine before transfering the datas on the ...
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Forward Incoming Traffic with Window's Host file?

A long time ago I found some guide that showed how to use the Windows Hosts file to forward incoming traffic to another local IP/Port. We setup a clients server on one IP/Port, and they wanted it ...
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Would I have a performance gain if I list entries in my hosts file to domains that are pointing to the server machine?

I must admit, I'm a software engineer and this stuff is not really one of my areas of expertise. I have a Web Application in .NET 4 which connects to various web services hosted on the same machine. ...
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.bat file question

I'm working on Windows XP. I need the batch file to do the following: Create a directory $DOMAINNAME on D:/Webserver/domains/%DOMAINNAME/www/ Open the file - ...
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Service located on network

I've got a WCF web service that handles a portion of business logic and data access. This service is hosted on a server on our network at our office. Our website, hosted elsewhere, uses this service ...
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How can I set up my Linux (CentOS) box to respond to *.centos?

I have a dev box that runs Apache for lots of different sites. We currently access these through http://centos/project-name. I'd like to switch to http://project-name.centos. I've set up virtual ...
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Using BIND for virtual hosts?

I've created the following virtual hosts: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName testingsitehere.com ServerAlias www.testingsitehere.com DocumentRoot ...
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dns does not work from different drive letters

C:\>ping localhost Pinging Vextor [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128 Ping statistics for ...
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Map a URL to local Blog

I would like to type /blog in my url and have it go to my locally hosted WordPress page at http://localhost/wordpress I modified my host file to redirect blog to the localhost. Now apache display the ...
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Is it possible to point 2 virtual hosts with different domains and unique IP addresses to the same folder?

is it possible to point 2 virtual hosts with different domains and unique ip addresses to the same folder? If so should I be aware of anything? Also is it possible for each of those domains to have ...
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/etc/hosts - How can I point to a certain directory in my local intranet?

I need to point admin.company.com to 192.168.2.100/admin How can I do that?
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map old windows server to new windows server

At the moment, I have 2 servers (serve1 and serve2). serve1 is old and data is small enough to move to serve2. serve1 = Win 2k3 serve2 = Win 2008 R2 The problem is I need to keep the serve1 name ...
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Different hosts files per network on windows 7?

I'd like to be able to have seperate hosts files for different networks on windows 7. Basically, I have an internal IP address for my web server at home which I was thinking of putting in the hosts ...
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Getting “unknown host” on hostname despite adding it to /etc/hosts

I have an Ubuntu server called crow: $ hostname crow But when I try to ping it (from itself), I get unknown host: $ ping crow ping: unknown host crow This is despite explicitly adding crow to ...
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localhost won't load after adding directives to httpd on WAMP Apache 2.2xx

I am not very experienced with configuring httpd, and I am following a tutorial to view my site w/ domain name under localhost. My localhost just blanks out and my apache services won't restart. I ...
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connect to a machine inside the intranet from outside with same address used inside

I have a server inside my intranet, in wich i have apache running with some web applications. when i'm at office the url i use to connect is zeus.mydomain.it, it works couse i have in my /etc/hosts a ...
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setting domains

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SOLVED - no need to answer :) I'm setting a local webserver to do a lot of web development work from now on. I'm not really knowledgeable in hosting configuration. Thing is I ...

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