Hacking Computers, and the Net

Besides running a local copy of Apache on Nginx or your dev box, or using *vagrant*, the only other alternatives for a long time were XAMPP, MAMP, etc. While there are certainly good arguments for using them, for folks like Web Designers and such, there are a lot of technical hoops to jump through that just aren't needed for these types of use cases. And, there are times as well where we coders might want to throw up some flavor of CGI scripted code, and not have to mess with any of the above. Along come two excellent solutions, one completely Open Source, the other Open Source enough for the above use case. In fact, the completely open source solution is a fork of the other, prior to its changing its license to GPL. What I'm talking about is: Mongoose Civetweb Basic Rundown The Mongoose Docs will cover all the nuances, but basically, you can download the .dmg, open it, drag the app where ever you want to run it from, and double-click it. When the app op...

So the problem is simple. We're developing one, or a number of sites on our development box. We would like to be able to hit them in our browser via their url names, rather than various permutations of ip number and folder structure. I do my development on a Mac, so this solution is for OS X. The first step is to go into: /etc/hosts in a text editor, and assign the url to the loop-back address (you can just put it under all the other entries): 127.0.0.1 my-ghost-blog.com No that this is done, we next need to flush our dns cache using the following command in the terminal: dscacheutil -flushcache OK, now we can go to: my-ghost-blog.com in our web browser, and it will bring up our local running instance of ghost. --- This is a well known problem, and has a well known solution. The more of these solutions there are across the web, the greater the chance they will be found by any number of different key words.