How to refer to main domain without hard-coding its name?

Question

I have a domain name: TestSite.com. I create several subdomains for this site and refer to them as first.TestSite.com, second.TestSite.com, etc.

How do I refer to TestSi

Answer 1

An alternate solution would be to use the original domain name for the live server, but point it to your development environment.

You can override DNS lookups in Windows by adding lines to this file.

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Add the following using a text editor.

127.0.0.1   www.livesite.com
127.0.0.1   first.livesite.com
127.0.0.1   second.livesite.com

These domains will now map to the locahost. So there won't be a need to hack HTML for testing.