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[serialnoob]

I have a merchant.com test site on 192.1.1.11 which will eventually go live, but for testing purpose I'd like to send requests from 192.1.1.13. My virtualhost knowledge is basic. I can do  merchant.com from the 192.1.1.11 machine, but doing it from 192.1.1.13 does not work.

Is there a way to get 192.1.1.13 to try to talk to merchant.com on 192.1.1.11 before it goes outside to search for merchant.com?

192.1.1.11 linux
192.1.1.13 windoz

[nutballs]

192.1.x.x is a routable ip... That's going to cause you problems.
192.168.x.x is the private ip range
As is 10.x.x.x and 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255

But regardless, you can override from the hosts file on the requesting machine.
So on windows, c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
That hosts is a file not a dir.
If you are on windows 7 or vists, you must open it with an app that has been launched as an admin, even if you are an admin you must specifically do it as admin.... Dumb I know. So notepad works best. Right click on notepad and click run as administrator. Then nav to the file and edit it, pretty obvious how to when you see it. 

[serialnoob]

192.168.x.x is the private ip range

My wrong, I meant 168!

Thanks

You mean adding
192.168.1.11 merchant.com
to the "hosts" file right?

[nutballs]

Yep, that should do it.

[serialnoob]

And that did it exactly right, thanks