Using BIND for virtual hosts?

Question

I've created the following virtual hosts:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName  testingsitehere.com
              ServerAlias  www.testingsitehere.com 
    DocumentRoot /www/vhosts/testingsitehere.com
    ErrorLog /www/Apache22/logs/error.log

    <Directory "/www/vhosts/testingsitehere.com">
        Options All
        AllowOverride All
        order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and have installed BIND.

This is a testing server, not public-facing, so no one can access these. It uses Web-Developer Server Suite (hence the C:/www/vhosts folder path).

Should I use BIND over HOSTS file to map my domains to localhost, or should I keep using HOSTS as I did before?

Can BIND actually map domains/DNS to localhost, 127.0.0.1 or have I misunderstood here?

Cheers

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 14 '11 at 12:22

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If you are not serving a local network/intranet, there's no need to setup BIND, I'd say. If you are testing your virtual host from the same machine that it is running on, using %systemroot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts will work just fine.

What additional mapping apart from testingsitehere.com to 127.0.0.1 were you thinking of?

edited Mar 14 '11 at 12:22

user9517

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answered Mar 13 '11 at 15:40

Volker Stolz

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Using BIND for virtual hosts?

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