MacOS – Lion “hosts” File Bug

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I have some serious problems with the hosts file on my Lion 10.7.2. My hosts file is like following;

127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

27.0.0.1 first.localhost
::1 first.localhost
27.0.0.1 second.localhost
::1 second.localhost

I have more than 2 local sites but I just cut is short.

I can't manage http://first.localhost/ to work. http://second.localhost/ works fine but http://first.localhost/ doesn't work. If I delete the last two lines (which corresponds to second) than http://first.localhost/ works.

How can I add more than one local site in my hosts file? I'm using Lion 10.7.2 which I upgraded today and all those problems arose after that upgrade.

Note: There is nothing wrong with Apache config files or any other file with the local web server, I know that it's the /etc/hosts file that causes the problem.

Thanks.

Best Answer

All additional entries to the HOSTS file must be above the:

fe80::1%lo0

Make sure there is at least one line break after the last entry. Like so:

127.0.0.1 LLL.localhost
127.0.0.1 LLL.localhost
#

Although you probably can't tell, there is another line following the # symbol. One more thing to mention, using Space instead of Tab between 127.0.0.1 and localhost might help too.

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