Where is "hosts" file for apache https?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
> wrote:

> What's the advantage of using a bunch of conf files, one for each virtual
> host, over just putting blocks for them in httpd-vhosts.conf with
> corresponding entries in /etc/hosts ?
>
> Or does using the separate conf files mean I don't have to list each
> virtual host again in /etc/hosts ?
>

All /etc/hosts does is let you define hostnames that are not in DNS. To use
*any* host name in *any* program, it has to be defined somewhere, either in
DNS or in /etc/hosts.

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