== ABOUT ==
Overwrite the Host HTTP header to request a specific virtual host from a remote server.
Often enough while waiting for DNS propagation or standing up a replacement site, developers edit the hosts file on their system to achieve the same effect. This extension basically does the same thing without the hassle.
When detecting outgoing HTTP requests from your Chrome browser to the VHost Domain we redirect to the VHost IP. When detecting outgoing HTTP requests from your Chrome browser to the VHost IP, the extension simply adds a Host header containing the domain name specified in the VHost Domain. Any requests to sites other than the VHost Domain and VHost IP are ignored, so browsing other sites won’t be impacted.
== HOW TO USE ==
– Enable –
Click the VHost icon in the top right and enter the desired domain name.
When a domain is present and [x] Enabled is checked, the VHost icon turns red. That means all websites will be requested with the entered domain.
– Disable –
Untick the [ ] Enabled checkbox. The icon will turn green-ish which means VHost is disabled and all websites will be requested with the regular host name.
== Source ==
I released the source code on GitHub: https://github.com/Gachl/Virtual-Hosts-Chrome-Extension
I was unable to improve this extension with more features and I saw it being used by quite a lot of people. So thank you for that! If you need any features you can find the code or a fork of someone who already implemented more stuff over on GitHub.
== THANK YOU ==
For using this extension. If you have the time to spare, please consider rating it in the Web Store.
Many thanks to mcarver (https://github.com/mcarver) for:
– Cleaning my very basic JS
– Adding request filtering
– Adding redirect
– Adding Chrome storage sync
– Making this thing better in many ways
For the next version I hope to merge Zacqarys changes (https://github.com/Zacqary/Virtual-Hosts-Chrome-Extension) to this version.
This actually works to sign into wordpress. I had tried a few other options first but this one works for me.
これはhostsファイルのように指定したIPで指定したドメインを参照するものではなく、指定したドメインにアクセスしようとすると指定したIPそのものでアクセスする。
IP直接指定して見れるものとまったく同じであり、hostsファイルの書き換えの代わりにならない。
全くなんの役にも立たない拡張機能
Great, but it works only for one website, you need to extend it guys
thanks!
Has not worked in years. Use something else or edit your hosts file.
Just doesn’t seem to work. Using Chrome on a Mac if that matters. To see if it was entirely broken. I can enter any IP address and it makes no difference. Nothing “breaks”. I tried clearing cookies, refreshing clearing cache, quitting Chrome and reopening..
Doesnt work anymore – always says This site can’t be reached
not working
只能修改一个,要不然就可以用了,真是可惜
Simply changes the target domain to the VHOST IP: example.com -> 1.1.1.1. Which is useless because we have multiple VHOSTS behind the IP. So it simply redirects to server main host.
Doesn’t work at all.
Didn’t work. Installed and the address window popped up once. After that, clicking on it only showed an empty box.
Useless
Does exactly what I want.
We have a backup copy of our web server running on a host with a different name. Accessing that host directly immediately redirects back to the “real” server.
This extension allows us to access the backup server and stay there. Used to do this with clumsy proxies up to now. Thumbs up!
It works as expected:
setting mywebsite.com to ip 1.2.3.4 is requesting content from mywebsite.com virtual host on 1.2.3.4 server even if the original DNS is different.
BUT there is a BIG problem: all the subdomains are redirecting to the same ip as well. So if you have a “media.mywebsite.com” domain on a storage host, it will try to find it on 1.2.3.4 as well. :/
It saved us a lot of time and hassle to achieve something so simple – loved it
Simple quick solution for site development
Ändert die DNS Auflösung. Wie das Anpassen der Hosts-Datei. Leider nur eine Einstellung möglich.
Just installed this, and it worked perfectly for my use case. I needed to access an old site we had just replaced, so that I could grab a single file linked from a specific page.
Doesn’t let to override hostname to IP resolution like you could do editing hosts file of your OS.
Only a redirect as far as I can tell.
just replaces the URL doesn’t submit the HTTP_HOST request to another IP like expected
Funciona perfectamente,
la unica desventaja que solo puedes agregar una sola IP para redireccion
Wow! I was looking on how to view my temporary website before I point the NS and this extension solved my issue for such a long time! Appreciated this stuff!
No funciona para nada