local Rails with domain name?

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Possible Duplicate: How to specify a web address to a rails application? I want to boot 2 Rails on my machine. I can do this way: ``` rails s -p 3000 rails s -p 3001 ``` And access them through `localhost:3000` and `localhost:3001`. But is there any way to boot them on `foo.example.com` and `bar.example.com`? I don't really own the domain name `example.com`, and I just want my local programs to access them through this fake domain name instead of localhost.

Accepted Answer

If you're on Linux (I'm not sure of this in Mac), edit the file /etc/hosts with sudo, and add two lines:

```
127.0.1.1      foo.example.com
127.0.1.1      bar.example.com
```

If you point your browser to any of them, it should work. Then start the servers of your Rails Apps:

```
rails s 
rails s -p 3001
```

Finally point your browser to:

```
foo.example.com:3000
bar.example.com:3001
```

local Rails with domain name?

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