Virtual Domain - I think

[Hamsterpants]

Hi All,

I have apache installed on my windows XP machine and use my local machine as dev before uploading to my live site. The probelm that I am having is with keeping my links reletive to my local site and the site I upload to. What I mean by that is on my local machine my index file would be localhost/domainname/index, where as on my live site it is domainname/index, if you know what I mean.

So, I would like to know if it is possible to point, only on my local macine, i.e does not need to be visiable from outside my network, localhost to localhost/domainname. That way when I type in my browser http://domainname.dev (or what ever) it points to localhost/domainame????

Thanks
DIll

[matt_4013]

I'm assuming that you want to do this so that you can click on links, and not use relative names, etc. on your development machine? If that's true, rather than hard coding your "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/foo/" change it to $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] and make everything relative to that.

eg, you want to link to the file bar.php in the folder 'foo'.

echo "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/foo/bar.php\">bar.php</a>";

If that's NOT what you want it for, what DO you want it for?? (Not flaming, just genuinely curious!)

[Hamsterpants]

Hi Matt

I am not sure I understand....doesn't that mean that when I upload from my dev server to my live site, that I will need to change all my links...

If I give you an example

At the moment To keep links on files in a directory under my root e.g. (on dev server) domain/admin, I have to have the link as

/domain/admin/index.php, which when I upload to my live server isn't a valid link...if you see what I mean.

Dill