Re: Using the Django development server for local subdomain development

The best approach I've found is to use xip.io. xip.io is a service that is actually provided by the 37 Signals guys, but it works for any web project (not just Rails). I'll honour a good idea wherever it comes from.

It's a DNS server with unusual behaviour: If you prepend an IP address to the start of .xip.io, it will return that IP address as the resolved IP for the domain.

So - if you set your server running on 127.0.0.1:8000, but point your browser at http://127.0.0.1.xip.io:8000, it will resolve to 127.0.0.1. 

Then, you can use your subdomain; bob.127.0.0.1.xip.io:8000 will resolve to your development server, but with a request header that tells you the subdomain.

I've found it very useful for testing subdomains.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Brian Dant <briandant414@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to create a development environment that supports testing my subdomain configuration.  I'll be using the django-subdomains package, which relies on the sites framework.  To make a local environment that supports this while using the Django built-in webserver, do I need to set up local DNS?  Most of the solutions I see rely on Apache, and refer to the /etc/hosts file.  I've tried to use that, but nothing happens when I hit the name I think should map to 127.0.0.1:8000.

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