Editing hosts file to redirect url

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I know you can edit a hosts file to redirect a URL to an IP address as so   127 0 0 1 google com  but how do you force a redirect to a URL instead of an IP address    e g   mysite com welcome aspx google com  The explicit URL doesn t work and assuming mysite com s IP is 222 222 222 222  the following doesn t work either   222 222 222 222 welcome aspx google com

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No  but you could open a web server at  for example  127 0 0 77 and use it to check if the Request URI is   welcome aspx     If yes redirect to google  if not load the original site   127 0 0 77      mysite com

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Apply this trick   First you need IP address of url you want to redirect to  Lets say you want to redirect to stackoverflow com To find it  use the ping command in a Command Prompt  Type in   ping stackoverflow com   into the command prompt window and you   ll see stackoverflow s numerical IP address  Now use that IP into your host file  104 16 36 249 google com  yay now google is serving stackoverflow

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You could use the RedirectMatch directive in Apache to do something similar you want   It s pretty simple   RedirectMatch   http   222 222 222 222   Anyway  I can t see any reason to do that thing  Aren t you trying to intercept traffic  There are better ways  For Linux boxes as a router  iptables -j REDIRECT   Squid or Apache  For Cisco routers  you can use WCCP to a Cache or Web Server

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Make sure to double the entry with an additional  www -prefix  If you don t addresses like  www acme com  will not work

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You can t   A redirect requires a webserver to accept the first request and send back the redirect   The  hosts  file just lets you set your own DNS records

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hosts file   1 2 3 4 google com   1 2 3 4 - ip of your server   Run script on the server for redirecting users to url that you want

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