web development on windows and linux apache localhost

[nuttynibbles]

hi people,

i've Linux centos installed on a cpu and i'm gonna include it in our current network together with windows system so that all development can be done in a centralise area.

currently i've not gotten samba to work on linux for file sharing with windows. however, im just using filezilla for file transfer.

i've created virtual host in linux apache. e.g: dev.domin.com which points to /var/www/html/project. this works fine in linux, i can access via the browser.

however, i will be doing the development in window xp instead. i can access the file on the linux system from window by specifying the ip address of the linux system, e.g http://192.168.1.123/project/index.php. but, i wanna use the virtual names created. how can i call http://dev.domain.com on window system instead?

Thanks i hope i'm not confusing things =🙂

[wizeone]

you could edit your hosts file (if i recall right its in \windows\system32\drivers\etc)
and add a line like..

192.168.1.123              dev.domain.com

then you should be able to use the name instead of the ip..