switchto

switch between dev and prod environments from command line.

Installation

pip install switchto

How it works

It edits your hosts file locally on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Usage

Add entry

switchto -s my.website.com dev:127.0.0.1 team:192.168.1.100 prod:

This will create 3 entries for your website domain, named "dev", "team" and "prod". An empty string indicates to remove the entry from the hosts file once you run switchto that rule.

Switching from production to dev environment and back

switchto dev

Will add the following entry to your hosts:

127.0.0.1 my.website.com

Once you want to go back to production, you can:

switchto prod

Remove entries

You cannot remove entires from the config file, you can however set the rule to an empty string:

switchto -s my.website.com team:

Note: settings are saved in .s2.json on HOME or HOMEPATH directory.

Listing config

switchto -l

To list everything, or:

switchto -l regex

Which will list all rules matching that regex.

CNAMEs

Currently, switchto works only via hosts, which do not support redirecting domains to other domains, but only by IP address. You can create a rule with a target domain, but it will be resolved once you create the rule, and also you would have to pass "-y" to confirm this:

switchto -y -s my.website.com dev:my.website.local dev

Note the "dev" at the end, which specifies to make the switch instantly, rather than running "switchto dev" afterwards.