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Changing your hosts file on Windows Vista and others
During development and testing phases of the web development projects, one might need to direct a certain domain to a new IP address without making a global DNS change.
Enter the HOSTS file!
Simply add the following line to that file (using your own IP and DOMAIN)
192.168.0.1 www.yourdomain.com
and voila… the domain now points to the new server. Obviously this only affects your local machine.
Here are the locations of the HOSTS file on various operating systems:
- Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts
- Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
- Windows XP Home c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
On Vista, it gets a bit tricky…
By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don’t have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an administrator and open the file.
- Browse to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
- Right click “Notepad” and select “Run as administrator”
- Click “Continue” on the UAC prompt
- Click File -> Open
- Browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc”
- Change the file filter drop down box from “Text Documents (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)”
- Select “hosts” and click “Open”
- Make the needed changes and close Notepad. Save when prompted.
GoDaddy SSL & FireFox: “Unable to verify the identity of…”
Recently we have moved some of our clients websites to a new server. We have properly configured SSL Certs according to the instructions from GoDaddy.com. During testing we have discovered that the secure portions of the sites were generating an error when accessed with FireFox. The popup error alerted users that the SSL certificates authenticity can not be verified…
Unable to verify the identity of DomainName.com as a trusted site
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X-Cart Froogle (Google Products) Fix
Sofware
- X-Cart 4.1x
Problem Description
Google Products rejects the automatic Froogle file upload performed by X-Cart due to formatting issues.
FScommand
Sofware
- Abode Flash CS3
Problem Description
We have recently run into an interesting problem while creating an interactive launcher CD for one of our clients. Our Flash designer reported that he used exactly the same code (adjusted for the new file names) used in the previous project, yet FScommand refused to launch the new EXEs.
