How do I redirect a URL to another URL in the hosts file, rather than redirecting an IP to a URL?

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chad picture chad · Jul 19, 2010 · Viewed 18.2k times · Source

How do I redirect a URL to another URL in the hosts file, rather than redirecting an IP to a URL?

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Jim Lewis picture Jim Lewis · Jul 19, 2010

You can't. DNS (or the host files) lets you look up IP addresses for a given host name. There is no concept of remapping URLs at this level of networking. This needs to be done in your web server configuration.

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