LiveHosts

Doesn't work on chrome. Does work on Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/livehosts/. Can this extension be fixed on chrome? I will adjust my review if it works.

Does not work on Chrome :(

It's already been said in comments here, but this does not do what it says. It rewrites the URL and replaces the domain with the IP you specify. This is absolutely no good for servers doing SNI!

It does not work as it rewrites your url to use the desired IP instead of the dns address. It does not work because when the browser tries to match the SSL certificate with the domain name they'll never match!!!

This does not work as I was expecting. It simply changes the URL in the Address bar to the IP.

I'm not sure if I do something wrong or this extension is really not doing what it states. What I expect is that if there is a host test.dev which originally points to 1.1.1.1 and I want to try out another server with the same hostname then I add the new ip to the /etc/hosts like: 2.2.2.2 test.dev I tried the same with this plugin and all it does that it rewrites the URL of test.dev to 2.2.2.2 which makes no sense as it wont be caught by the same web server config

The concept is cool, but it doesn't work for me. Installed it on a Mac on the latest version of Chrome. I input the settings and saved them, no redirects happened.

Hard to use

It's a nice concept, but it doesn't really work perfectly. Redirects break the system, so for example if I want to test a virtual host for "foo.mysite.com" on a local server 192.168.x.x, but the main page of "foo.mysite.com" specifies a redirect to "/login", for example, the mapping won't kick in again and it'll try to send me to 192.168.x.x/login without faking the hostname being used, so the virtual host doesn't end up being used. The same also happens with HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects.

I don't think this will work with WordPress on a Local Web server installation? B/c it's changing the URL to IPaddress/wp-admin the server doesn't recognize it. Is there a way to make this work with WordPress on a WAMP installation?

Guy, the behavior is incorrect. First of all <IP address> is not the same origin of <Hostname>. Chrome will consider the two sites in a totally different way. The request is correctly sent, and the server should work, but the thing is at the client side: Chrome does not work this way. Secondly it wont work with HTTPS. The certificate returned by the server is for <Hostname>, not for <IP address>. Surely it is still useful some way, but what I am really looking for is sth. that works exactly the same way /etc/hosts works.

It doesn't work for me at all? I give it a real hostname and an internal IP number but what it does is it redirects me to http://<given IP number>/<given hostname> Sorry, this makes no sense at all.