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Pre-requisites:

Root or sudo privileges
Access to a terminal or command line

By modifying the hosts file you can easily preview your website on the local network during the migration of your website to a new server enabling you to establish a staging environment without impacting existing DNS records.

To edit your Mac’s host file for testing a LAMP stack,

Press the command and spacebar key to open Terminal by searching it via the spotlight search

Next, open the hosts file with your preferred editor program.

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Edit the hosts file

Type L in vi to move to the bottom of the screen

Type $ to move to the end of the line

Type i to enter insert mode

Use the following syntax at the bottom of the file

IP_Address domain.com

Once you are done editing the hosts file, type the following to save and quit the file

:wq

To flush your Mac’s DNS cache, type the following command

For macOS Monterey,

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

The changes should take effect immediately.

Remember, you should remove the new lines from the hosts file once propagation is done after connecting your domain to web hosting.

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