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Asked: 2026-05-21T09:02:06+00:00

I’m trying to learn about hosts & apache a little bit. One of the

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I’m trying to learn about hosts & apache a little bit. One of the things I’m trying to do myself is to add a line to /etc/hosts so that way I can access localhost in the browser

Currently, hosts contains this:

127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

Questions:
1. What does the ::1, and fe80::1%lo8 mean?
2. Are they essential to the accessing of 127.0.0.1 via typing ‘localhost’ in your browser?
3. What would I do to create an additional link to 127.0.0.1 typing something else in the browser, like “local”, so that way both “localhost” and “local” work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Kristian, I’m not sure what those symbols mean (::1 for example), but creating host file entries is as easy as typing an IP address and then the list of domains to match.

    For example:

    127.0.0.1 local localhost

    will match both ‘local’ and ‘localhost’ to 127.0.0.1. You could have also done the following:

    127.0.0.1 local
127.0.0.1 localhost

    One entry per line – use a ‘#’ at the beginning of each line if you want to comment that line out.

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