https://www.rootchronicles.com/ 2026-04-27T13:37:28+00:00 https://www.rootchronicles.com/ https://www.rootchronicles.com/_media/wiki:logo.png text/html 2022-03-27T19:56:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.rootchronicles.com/web_development:tips_and_tricks:hosts_file?rev=1648410967&do=diff Editing your machine’s hosts file / View a website as it appears on a different host Change the domain’s A-Record (without changing the domain’s A -record) What is the hosts file? In the old days of the internet there was no DNS system. Everyone kept a copy of all the hosts (this was before the days of websites) on the internet on a file on their computer. As new hosts were added to the internet an updated hosts file was sent round everyone on the internet so they could get their local copy u…