[wp-hackers] WP Development & Production Sites

[scribu]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> If you want to setup a local installation and have real content on
> there, edit the HOSTS file. Make yoursite.com appear to be at
> 127.0.0.1. Then you can have your test site use the actual real URLs.
> When you move the content, it will still have those actual real URLs.
> If editing HOSTS files is too onerous for you, use a program to
> automate it, so you can switch between a dev hosts file and a live one
> by clicking a button. There's several programs that can do this out
> there.
>

That's exactly what I do, actually. I thought there was a special reason why
feeds would be affected by relative URLs.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts.