[Screencast] HostUpdater module

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Everyone, I’ve made a quick screencast showing how to use Chris Schmitz’s new super sweet host updater module. This module will automatically add domains to your hosts file for you for your internal servers. And what’s even cooler is it uses some smart networking tricks so each CommandBox server can run on port 80. No more random ports!

https://vimeo.com/204023771

Thanks!

~Brad

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Hi Brad,
Was curious about the comment you made in reply to my comment on the screencast page :

Hey Joel, we actually have a working proof of concept to do exactly what you described. The difference is instead of using CFML to manipulate the hosts file, we have to do it in a bash sudo one liner that we fire off with the Java equivalent to cfexecute. It’s difficult to get working though mostly because neither Chris nor I own a Mac to test on.

Are you and Chris still working on the proof of concept? Do you need any assistance with testing on a mac?

Thanks,
Joel

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Hi, Andrew Davis (who has Mac he uses had the proof of concept working, but I haven’t heard anything from him in a while. You’re very welcome to try forking the repo and giving it a try. We were using a java process build with the inheritIO() method set.

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox/CommandBox Developer Advocate
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
ColdBox Platform: http://www.coldbox.org
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Thanks Brad. I’ll check it out.