HostAdmin

Saving your time when you switch domain-ip mapping between different environment

Installing

• Chrome WebStore
• Firefox AddonSite
• Download from Google Code

How HostAdmin analyze the Hosts file

Syntax detail

• Common

IP DOMAIN [#COMMENT]

Example:

    127.0.0.1       localhost #comment here

NOTE: A line with a comment, 'hide' (case-insensitive), would be hiden from HostAdmin.

• Grouping

   #==== Groupname 
   
   # some mappings
   
   #====
  

  Example:

   #==== Project 1
   #127.0.0.1       localhost1
   127.0.0.1       localhost2
   127.0.0.1       localhost3
   #====
  
   #==== Project 2
   #127.0.0.1       localhost1
   #127.0.0.1       localhost2
   #127.0.0.1       localhost3
   #====
  

WRITE Permission to Hosts File

WRITE Permission to Hosts is needed, thus HostAdmin could modify your Host Files. XP users need NO additional setting. Here is a guide for you to gain write privilege for Vista/7/Linux/MacOS users

http://code.google.com/p/fire-hostadmin/wiki/GAIN_HOSTS_WRITE_PERM

DNS Auto refreshing

• Firefox

  HostAdmin borrowed code from DNS flusher to refresh dns when hosts file is modified.

• Chrome

  Since Chrome 21, Chrome will auto refresh dns by itself. More info at this ticket