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Setup local wildcard domains

28 Feb 2014Harianto van Insulinde

To make your development domains point to localhost you could edit etc/hosts and add a line
mdstn.com.dev 127.0.0.1

And every project you’re going to start you’ll add more line. Such as:
anotherdomain.com.dev 127.0.0.1

This come very tedious and time consuming. Well time is very important to me so I like things automated. You might use dnsmasq.
This work very well if you work at home and never move your computer to other WiFi networks. I like to have the idea I could travel anywhere with my MacBook and use WiFi from friends, library or just at workplace. But when I do that, I need to configure DNS Server in my Network Preferences everytime. That my friend, is also tedious.

And I have this solution for this challenge is adding a file to /etc/resolver
and name it to dev.

Make sure you are root use this code below and put in dev

text

nameserver 127.0.0.1

Install dnsmasq trough brew

bash

brew install dnsmasq
mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc/
echo 'address=/.dev/127.0.0.1' > $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
sudo cp -v $(brew --prefix dnsmasq)/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver
sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/dev'

dnsmasq.conf

bash

cat > /opt/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf <<-EOF
resolv-file=/etc/resolv.dnsmasq.conf
address=/.dev/127.0.0.1
listen-address=127.0.0.1
port=53
no-dhcp-interface=
bind-interfaces
addn-hosts=/var/www/_conf/adblock_hosts
bogus-nxdomain=64.94.110.11
bogus-nxdomain=64.62.153.174
log-queries
log-facility=/var/log/dnsmasq
#conf-file=/opt/local/etc/dnsmasq.itunes.conf

# keep nameserver order of resolv.conf
strict-order
EOF

dnsmasq.itunes.conf

bash

cat > /opt/local/etc/dnsmasq.itunes.conf <<-EOF 
#### itunes Hack
server=/ax.init.itunes.apple.com/8.8.8.8
#### iTunes Hack
address=/itunes.apple.com/91.224.160.136
address=/edgesuite.net/91.224.160.136
address=/itunes.com/91.224.160.136
address=/csrrun.naturalmotion.com/127.0.0.1
#address=/cloudcell.com/127.0.0.1
address=/testflightapp.com/127.0.0.1
#address=/#/127.0.0.1
EOF

create .dev file

bash

# log as root

# creates directory
mkdir -p /etc/resolver
echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/dev

Every DOT dev domains will points to your localhost

file:

Add bash aliases

file: ~/.bash_aliases

bash

alias dnsmasq.start='sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist'
alias dnsmasq.stop='sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist'
alias dnsmasq.restart='dnsmasq.stop && dnsmasq.start'

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