sub.domain.localhost

Question

I'm doing web development (LAMP) on Ubuntu 7.10. To be able to develop locally, I do the following for each new site: - create a new site file in /etc/apache2/sites-available and do a2ensite on it - add a "127.0.0.1 site" line to /etc/hosts - create a new directory at ~/dev/site that is the document root for this site

This works great, as I can just type http://site in a browser and view my local version of the site.

For one site in particular, I need to test out user account subdomains, so I need to use URLs like http://bob.site, http://phil.site, etc. But I can't seem to set up apache or /etc/hosts to support wildcard subdomains.

Any ideas on how to use wildcard subdomains on locally hosted sites?