can someone tell me where I can find a tutorial how to set vhosts or the other host files to use pantheon dev/live/testing versions?

I thought mercury=pantheon?

I am a little confused. Because when I look in the file to I can see:

Now I have for hours been trying to figure out how to set up the virtual host file, watching every video and reading everything I can.....

I cant understand why it says :

Is this something we should change to like

I guess not, because you dont have to type in
live.mysite.com

to see the live version of your site.....

However, I am uable to type in dev.mysite.dom and see the dev version of my site.....

So I am confused and feel so stupid that I havent figured out how to do this yet. I have for days just started to learn this to get my project running... Im a single man non profit in China and pretttyyy busy teaching....

This is taking me longer than I thought to figure out.

I cant find any cleary tutorials to set up the virtual hosts with mercury . Im using linode, and I am trying to figure this out or go with Aegir, which I would also havew to learn. I hopw I can make pantheon work...

but the thing was I did type that into my vhosts file. bt going into live.thecenterofthenet.com was not working. I am looking forward to the release of doccumentation and I will try it again . It looks like a great project!

Solution:

• Have a wildcard cname * to yoursite.com
• Change /var/pantheon/fab/pantheon/project.py

as below

Line 182ish

for env in self.environments:

        if pantheon.is_private_server():
            server_alias = '%s.*' % env
        else:
           server_alias = '%s.%s.yoursite.com' % (env, self.project)   <-------- CHANGED

        vhost_dict = {'server_name': env,
                      'server_alias': server_alias,
                      'project': self.project,
                      'environment': env,
                      'db_name': '%s_%s' % (self.project, env),
                      'db_username':self.project,
                      'db_password':db_password,
                      'solr_path': '/%s_%s' % (self.project, env),
                      'memcache_prefix': '%s_%s' % (self.project, env)}

OR as long as you use the whole domain name as the project name, below.

for env in self.environments:

        if pantheon.is_private_server():
            server_alias = '%s.*' % env
        else:
           server_alias = '%s.%s' % (env, self.project)   <-------- CHANGED

        vhost_dict = {'server_name': env,
                      'server_alias': server_alias,
                      'project': self.project,
                      'environment': env,
                      'db_name': '%s_%s' % (self.project, env),
                      'db_username':self.project,
                      'db_password':db_password,
                      'solr_path': '/%s_%s' % (self.project, env),
                      'memcache_prefix': '%s_%s' % (self.project, env)}