Topic: Rewriting the domain part of a URL, locally hosted sandbox

[KenBarlow]

I have a web site that is written and hosted on a public server, lets say it is www.mysite.com. I have installed a local copy of Apache on my laptop, not connected to the outside world. Setting htdocs allows me to view the web site from my local file system, lets say from file:///c:/tempdir.

Links in the locally hosted web site work fine when they link to a relative path, but some links use the full URL and I want to configure .htaccess file so I can also view html pages with these absolute http://www.mysite.com/foo.html paths. I have tried numerous attempts at this using regular expressions in rewrite rules, but have not got it to work, and don't think it is the right way of re-writing the domain part of the URL.

In essense, I want URLs such as http://www.mysite.com/afile.html to be served from file:///c:/tempdir/afile.html.

I would be grateful for any assistance in achieving this.

Thanks in advance!

[James Blond]

If you are using apache, just put all the files into the htdocs folder or make C:\tempdir your documentroot and open http://localhost/afile.html

[KenBarlow]

Yes, that is what I have done, but does not answer my question because it does not redirect an explicit http URL with file name to a file URL with the same relative file name.

I was looking at if this could be done using a hosts file.

[James Blond]

Yepp, you can.

in the end of your hosts file of the laptop add