socketandserve
Serves sockets in a folder as subdomains of .dev.
Say you have a folder, /var/sockets, and serve some webapps on sockets in that
folder, like
/var/sockets
- myapp.sock
- otherthing.sock
you can then
$ curl myapp.dev
...
$ curl otherthing.dev
...
Instructions
It will run on port 8080 by default, forwarding requests to http://xxx.dev to
the socket xxx.sock in the directory specified by --socket-dir. The only
thing left to do is to setup forwarding port 80 to port 8080.
On Ubuntu, at least, this is not too hard.
$ sudo apt-get install dnsmasq resolvconf
Edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf, add
address=/dev/127.0.0.1
interface=lo
no-dhcp-interface=lo
Reboot.
$ sudo iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT -p tcp -d 127.0.0.1 --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
It should work!
Stolen from
https://mkrmr.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/using-dnsmasq-to-run-your-own-tld/
and
http://serverfault.com/questions/112795/how-can-i-run-a-server-on-linux-on-port-80-as-a-normal-user.