Testing Web Applications With a Real URL on local system on Windows

Testing web applications with a real URL on local on windows. Sometimes web apps need to parse the URL and since all real URLS have at least one '.' localhost might not be suitable for testing.



To get around this :



Open the file called hosts its default location is c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or more accurately



%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

{To get the full path on your system you could type

echo %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

on a command prompt}



Open it in notepad and add the line at end

127.0.0.1 www.a.com



This is how my file looks

---- start hosts ----

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

 

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       a.com
127.0.0.1       www.a.com

 

 

---- end hosts ----

Now in any browser goto http://a.com/ use this with my XAMPP-PHP-MYSQL set up on local

It maps to local host. Use it as you would use localhost. If your web server is running on a different IP then you can specify that as in

http://a.com:8080



Comments welcome. thank you

Regards

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a list of selected files

You have a few files selected in Windows explorer and now you want the names or paths in a file or in your clipboard.

This utility does that in a jiffy.

Select files, right click and choose to send to this App : CmdLineToDirTxt.exe

It can either save the file names to a file or copy to the clibboard. Either way it looks like this:

just copy it to your send to folder (or open it and make it copy it self)

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start firefox with a new profile - 2nd session, different set of cookies

you can start firefox in with a new profile

with the option

--no-remote -p tushar



To do this make a new short cut to firefox.exe



then right click the short cut, choose properties



at the end of the Target you will see



\firefox.exe



to this add a space and --no-remote -p tushar



tushar can be your name or any string like profile2



The complete shortcut target in windows XP or Vista will be :

E:\ProgramFiles\Mozilla\Firefox\firefox.exe -p t

(IMPORTANT for the main window which should be started first )



then another short cut to the other firefox exe and with the no remote and other profile name:

E:\ProgramFiles\Mozilla\Firefox\firefox_prod.exe -p prod --no-remote



You can make a copy of your current default profile folder to copy all the settings and change the folder location (make the folder first then select it when you make a new profile) can even have more than two profiles on the same computer



can search in google for more



if you use XP or windows 2000 and do not want both the windows to group, bunch together can makea copy of firefox.exe name it

firefox2.exe and then have the 2nd sortcut point to this exe



REMEMBER

* Making a new profile makes a seperate cookie/ settings folder also will not have old profiles history, saved passwords etc unless you copy the existing profile folder to a new one and choose that new folder as the new profiles folder.



this can be done in the Create Profile step see images:






You this screen by starting firefox with the profile option -p as in :

E:\ProgramFiles\Mozilla\Firefox\firefox_prod.exe -p

















Choose folder