Windows: How to use hosts file with path?

Question

This works:

127.0.0.1       www.somesite.com

But not this:

127.0.0.1/somepath/www       www.mysite.com

What am I doing wrong? Is it possible to map a full path like this? If not, what is the easiest way to accomplish what I want to do here?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '13 at 06:32

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The simple answer is that you can't use the hosts file to redirect to specific URLs. It can only be used to map hostnames to IP addresses.

answered May 10 '13 at 06:32

NPE

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Is there a way to do it though? Some other way? – rockstardev May 10 '13 at 06:33
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@coderama you could use internal rewrite/mod_proxy to do the same on server side. I'm not aware of any solutions doing it on client side. – eis May 10 '13 at 06:38

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