Testing Multi-Tenancy on a Local Machine

If you are running locally and do not have a domain to map, you can edit your \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file to create a sample host.

The following advice is for Windows 7 or Windows Vista and was taken from ). These instructions assume that you're using WebMatrix and IIS Express to work with Orchard.

1. Open the \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ folder.

2. Right-click the hosts file and give yourself modify permissions to that file.

3. Open the hosts file in a text editor.

4. Add the following line, replacing mydemo with the domain name you want to use:

   127.0.0.1 mydemo

5. Open the \Users\\[YourUserName\]\Documents\IISExpress\config\ folder.

6. Open the Applicationhost.config file in a text editor.

7. Locate the section for your existing Orchard site, such as the following:

   <site name="mydemo" id="nnnnnnnnn"/>

8. Under the <bindings> section, leave the default localhost binding, but copy it onto the next line and edit it to read:

   <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:28923:mydemo" />

9. Substitute the port number above for the one you copied from the default localhost binding.

If you do not want to run WebMatrix with admin privileges (which is not a good practice for security reasons), you need to follow the steps outlined in the article