Changing your HOSTS file on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux
During website development you may need to access a site without making changes to the DNS, for example if you wish to start developing a site on a new server without changing the live site. Often you will be able to access the site through a temporary address, but with the way that many of the current Content Management Systems work such as b2evolution, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, etc. then access through this temporary address may result in the site displaying incorrectly. There are a few ways around this (more…)