Ramble On

I’m setting up this new domain and I’m having to setup my own domains and since Media Temple don’t handle .co.uk’s, I couldn’t set them up when I purchased the server space. So while I was waiting for a dns change to be propagated from a UK registration service. I wanted to test that I had configured the server correctly for the new urls and discovered a remarkably useful ‘hosts’ file in both Windows and OSX that allows you to override your dns server and redirect urls to ip addresses. Remarkably useful and I don’t know why I wasn’t aware of them.

On Windows there’s a file called ‘hosts’ in 

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

You can edit the file using a text editor and add in your testing servers url and the ip address to direct the browser to. e.g.

127.0.0.1       mywebsite.com

OSX also has a ‘hosts’ file in /etc/hosts

Again you can edit the host file by using 

sudo vi /etc/hosts

and then add the required host definitions.

Posted in General, Web Design

Welcome to my new blog. Through this blog I’m going to document the many trials and tribulations of being a Domino-based web developer. 

I work for the Learning Technology Development Unit at the University of Hertfordshire developing their on-line Domino based learning environment, StudyNet. 

With so many good blogs on this subject already available, why another one? Well, to be honest, I’ve been all too happy to consume the expertise provided by other bloggers so I thought it was about time to I add my thoughts and hopefully they’ll be of help to new developers getting started with Domino

Posted in General