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custom made web address on local computer

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cavearea

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I have seen where you can type something like: "myweb" in the address field box and it will access your personal web pages from your local hard drive. How do I do that?

I have win XP.
 
you will need to isntall your own dns server for that to work simple dns plus is a good windows based one it does take a bit more than this but if you start looking in dns youll soon pick up how. you will alos need to host a www server on your box and set up host headers to respond to the names you put your dns. its atad awkward for a newbie but not impossible look into dns and apache.


hope this poitns ya in the right direction. 😛
 
You can edit your hosts file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ) and make anything you want resolve to any specific IP you want. So if you wanted to just type myweb and have it access your local webserver just add an entry like this:
127.0.0.1 myweb

Of course this is assuming you already have a webserver running on your local computer.
 
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