Proxying fake domain to a localhost port

Posted by Trevor Burnham on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Trevor Burnham
Published on 2011-11-25T22:24:14Z Indexed on 2011/11/26 1:55 UTC
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I'd like to do much the same thing described at Redirect Domain Name to Localhost for web app development purposes, but with the twist that I'd like requests to fakedomain.com:80 to be routed to localhost:8080, say, so that I don't have to actually use my development machine's port 80.

I'd welcome answers that take the form of:

  • Small changes to configuration files like /etc/hosts, and/or
  • An easy-to-configure proxy server I could run

Note: Pow takes the approach of setting a firewall rule to forward all incoming traffic on port 80 to port 20559. That may be an acceptable solution, but ideally, I'd like to forward only a specific domain + port combination.

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