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copied!<p>Acrylic DNS Proxy (free, open source) does the job. It creates a proxy DNS server (on your own computer) with its own hosts file. The hosts file accepts wildcards.</p> <p><strong>Download from the offical website</strong></p> <p><a href="http://mayakron.altervista.org/support/browse.php?path=Acrylic&name=Home">http://mayakron.altervista.org/support/browse.php?path=Acrylic&name=Home</a></p> <h2>Configuring Acrylic DNS Proxy</h2> <p><strong>To configure Acrylic DNS Proxy, install it from the above link then go to:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Start</li> <li>Programs</li> <li>Acrylic DNS Proxy</li> <li>Config</li> <li>Edit Custom Hosts File (AcrylicHosts.txt)</li> </ol> <p><strong>Add the folowing lines on the end of the file:</strong></p> <pre><code>127.0.0.1 *.localhost 127.0.0.1 *.local 127.0.0.1 *.lc </code></pre> <p><strong>Restart the Acrylic DNS Proxy service:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Start</li> <li>Programs</li> <li>Acrilic DNS Proxy</li> <li>Config</li> <li>Restart Acrylic Service</li> </ol> <p><strong>You will also need to adjust your DNS setting in you network interface settings:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Start</li> <li>Control Panel </li> <li>Network and Internet </li> <li>Network Connections </li> <li>Local Area Connection Properties</li> <li>TCP/IPv4</li> </ol> <p><strong>Set "Use the following DNS server address":</strong></p> <pre><code>Preferred DNS Server: 127.0.0.1 </code></pre> <p><em>If you then combine this answer with jeremyasnyder's answer (using <code>VirtualDocumentRoot</code>) you can then automatically setup domains/virtual hosts by simply creating a directory.</em></p>

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