Important Announcement

Everybody is strongly encouraged to switch to the upcoming v1.0.0 release version to prevent unforseen issues upon merge to master.

Instructions here: https://github.com/cytopia/devilbox/pull/416.

Add project hosts entry on Windows

On Windows, custom DNS entries can be added to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and will take precedence over the same entries provided by any DNS server.

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Assumption

In order to better illustrate the process, we are going to use two projects as an example. See the following table for project directories and TLD_SUFFIX.

Project directory TLD_SUFFIX Project URL Required DNS name
project-1 loc http://project-1.loc project-1.loc
www.project-1 loc http://www.project-1.loc www.project-1.loc

Docker for Windows

When using Docker for Windows you can use 127.0.0.1 for the IP address.

  1. Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc with admistrative privileges via notepad.exe or any other text editor.

  2. Add DNS records for the above listed examples:

    C:WindowsSystem32driversetc
    127.0.0.1  project-1.loc
127.0.0.1  www.project-1.loc

  3. Safe the file and verify the DNS entries with the ping command

    host> ping -c1 project-1.loc

PING project-1.loc (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms

    host> ping -c1 www.project-1.loc

PING www.project-1.loc (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms

Docker Toolbox

When using the Docker Toolbox, you cannot use 127.0.0.1 for DNS entries, but rather need to use the IP address of the Docker Toolbox machine instead.

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Find Docker Toolbox IP address

For this example we will assume the Docker Toolbox IP address is 192.168.99.100.

  1. Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc with admistrative privileges via notepad.exe or any other text editor.

  2. Add DNS records for the above listed examples:

    C:WindowsSystem32driversetc
    192.168.99.100  project-1.loc
192.168.99.100  www.project-1.loc

  3. Safe the file and verify the DNS entries with the ping command

    host> ping -c1 project-1.loc

PING project-1.loc (192.168.99.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (192.168.99.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms

    host> ping -c1 www.project-1.loc

PING www.project-1.loc (192.168.99.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (192.168.99.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.066 ms