Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X • Hacker News Board

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by sexmonad » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

I use "lvh.me" - it has a wildcard DNS record to redirect any subdomain to localhost. So I'll use something like "example.com.lvh.me" to test.

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by r4um » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

Another neat tool/trick http://xip.io/

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by josephby » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 4:27 PM UTC

Or you could use ettercap to redirect all DNS requests for any device on your local network. That's how I test iPhone, iPad, and Android applications when the services needed don't have DNS entries: http://joseph.by/post/83414951259/effectively-edit-hosts-fil...

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by e28eta » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 4:36 PM UTC

javan wrote: post #3

For Ruby apps, there's also http://pow.cx/

I really enjoy using Pow for non-Ruby apps too.

It handles the .dev DNS resolution, and also supports hosting domains that you map through /etc/hosts (ex: foo.company.com if you need to share cookies with a SSO server, but don't want all of company.com directed to your local machine)

It is much easier to configure than Apache vhosts for distributing traffic based on host name:

* symlink to Rack app for Ruby support. Name of symlink becomes hostname

* create a directory and symlink Public for static HTML. Directory name is hostname

* as sibling said, put port # in text file to proxy traffic to another process. File name is hostname

I use Anvil for Mac to do some of my Pow management.

I'm also using Apache to do SSL termination and proxy to Pow, as well as host some other stuff. But Pow is so easy to use for both static sites and proxying to another web server, I prefer it.

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by skimmas » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:00 PM UTC

taylorbuley wrote: post #9

What are the advantages of using an approach like this vs. editing /etc/hosts directly?

I read the article and just thought it's over engenering. I wonder how many different web sites do these people have to configure on their laptops every week.

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by rcsorensen » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:01 PM UTC

gnufied wrote: post #7

I wrote - http://invoker.codemancers.com/ for similar use. It provides easy to use `.dev` local domain support and then ability to manage multiple processes via a Procfile or custom ini file.

Thanks for this. Procfile support has been a thorn in my side with pow for ages.

Edit: Invoker doesn't seem to support the pow use case -- local configuration, not global. Inspired by the topic, I found https://github.com/riywo/anypow , which has a wrapper for non-rack applications, and can be used to make pow play nice with Procfiles.

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by freshyill » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

I use virtualhost.sh, which is available via homebrew. Maybe the use case is a bit different, but it seems a heck of a lot easier for most uses.

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by aalvarado » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

I wrote a little post for myself on the same topic, detailing how to get this working on Linux (Ubuntu & variants). https://coderwall.com/p/6dgpsw

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by dshankar » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:45 PM UTC

Genuinely curious: when & why would I want to use myproject.dev:port over localhost:port?

Re: Using Dnsmasq for local development on OS X

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Post by caw » Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:59 PM UTC

dshankar wrote: post #29

Genuinely curious: when & why would I want to use myproject.dev:port over localhost:port?

You can't do subdomain.localhost:port, so the idea is to create a DNS server that will resolve .dev as a TLD to 127.0.0.1