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edit hosts to point ip to www addy - Guest - 2003-12-12
to edit your hosts file to point an ip (eg: 100.0.0.1) to a www address (eg: www.linux-noob.com) do this
su -
vi /etc/hosts
press INSERT on your keyboard
change it from
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
to
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
100.0.0.1 www.linux-noob.com linux-noob
press ESCape on your keyboard
write the changes with
:wq
thats it
now when you type [/url][url=https://www.linux-noob.com]https://www.linux-noob.com (or whatever it was) you won't get the ip address or host not found, you'll get the www address :-)
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cheers