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Asked: 2026-05-20T08:45:48+00:00

I’m trying to set up my development instances so that I can fake some

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I’m trying to set up my development instances so that I can fake some urls that I own. My website has a number of url’s and depending on the one you visit my site will act differently based on the domain..

ive edited my C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts File to contain something like below

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1   SomeDomain.com
127.0.0.1   MyDomain.com

Now if I visit localhost everything works fine but when i try visit SomeDomain.com or MyDomain.com it produces couple different messages depending on browsers

Firefox – “Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)”
Chrome – Asked for a username/password and just hitting on (not entering anything) products same result as firefox

IE6- “The page cannot be displayed”

any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your HOSTS file looks good. Also try adding the www version of each one, e.g.:
    127.0.0.1 localhost
    127.0.0.1 SomeDomain.com
    127.0.0.1 http://www.SomeDomain.com
    etc

    However, the problem is probably the setup of the web server. If you’re using IIS, the problem probably is that you haven’t set up host headers correctly.

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