How to use your own domain name on Win7 and Linux

This blog post focuses on how to use your own defined domain name for access on Win7 and Linux.

The Hosts file is a file on the computer used to correlate the URLs you visit and IP resolution, we may want to modify this file on a specific occasion, the XP system with Notepad can open the file modified and then saved, However, under the Win7 system, you need to open it with Notepad under administrator privileges to save it.

The first is to modify the hosts file for Win7

Remember to open Notepad with "Run as Administrator"

Second Open Hosts file

The third modification of the hosts file is as follows

Add a custom domain name for the IP address of my nginx server in the file nanfenglei22

Modifying a Linux/etc/hosts file

In this case, localhost re-alias Nanfenglei22

Restarting the Linux network

sudo/etc/init.d/networking restart

Access your defined domain name under win7

Note: My nginx monitor is on port 8090.

How to use your own domain name on Win7 and Linux