Redirect Addresses to localhost by Pattern on Mac OS X
apache, hosts, localhost, macos, vhosts
Solution
The best solution I've been able to find is DNSMasq.
Justin Carmony's blog post helped me set it up. His original question was more about why `.local` was so slow after upgrading OSX or something like that, but the solution was the same: DNSMasq.
http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2011/07/27/mac-os-x-lion-etc-hosts-bugs-and-dns-resolution/
Now, basically all *.cam address go to my local IP. I have it set up so all I have to do is create a folder, list test.cam and I'm off and running with a full LAMP stack.
Problem
I'm not even 100% sure how to ask this question. The answer might be out there, but I can't find it. So I've set up virtual hosts for my Mac and I do all my development locally on my computer. I have a `vhost` folder in my `Sites` folder, and I have a list of folders, such as: ``` recipes.cam database.cam sandbox.cam codeigniter.cam ``` and in my `/etc/hosts` file I have an entry for each one: ``` # vhosts 127.0.0.1 recipes.cam 127.0.0.1 database.cam 127.0.0.1 sandbox.cam 127.0.0.1 codeigniter.cam # ... ``` And this works great. When I go to http://recipes.cam in my browser, it shows the contents of the `~/Sites/vhosts/recipes.cam`. So this is my question: Is there a way to have any address that end in `.cam` to redirect to localhost? So I don't have to create a new entry in `hosts` every time I add a new directory (it happens pretty often). I tried `127.0.0.1 *.cam` in my `hosts` file, but it didn't work :-/