[Discuss] dev & prod server url question

[Eric Chadbourne]

That looks like the answer!  I'll try it now.  Thanks all!


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 04:59:54PM -0500, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have been handed a pretty large (not in hits but in code) website to
>> maintain.  There's a few features they would like added.  My problem
>> is that the code is a mess.  No comments, no documentation, very
>> sloppy, and error_log is so full of problems it makes my head spin.
>> Anyway, they don't have a development server, only production.  So I
>> spun up centos in virutalbox, imported the db and files.  It "works"
>> but there are like 170 links that point to the production server.
>> There's also some funny javascript I don't understand yet that I think
>> requires the production server.  Apparently their old admin didn't
>> believe in relative paths.  So is there a way I can make the
>> development server think it's the production server?  Like when I
>> click on a link that says foo.com/bar it really just stays at
>> 127.0.0.1/bar?  Bind?
>
> /etc/hosts comes to mind.
>
> 127.0.0.1       foo.com
>
> -dsr-



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