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Browser with its own hosts file?

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Mar 15, 202622494 views
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I have a number of staging and test servers that I need to constantly modify my hosts file to access (they depend on the domain name, so I have to change the hosts file to get them to work). I find this annoying. I'd like to setup a portable browser of some kind for each kind of site I want to work…

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some-address.com

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Squid solved the problem for me. I think many proxy servers could do the same. Specifically, I had to install Squid. Then change the squid.conf so that it accessed an alternate hosts file. This is the line you want to change: In my case I used . I c…

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