How to point "localhost" to other pc?

kairen · 09-12-2007, 02:12 AM

Hi

I have a running Apache server on my pc. I want to change
"localhost" so it will point to a dir on another pc in the local network. How to do that? Or where to look for an answer.

I tried googling this but couldn't find the right direction

Thanks.

LauMars · 09-12-2007, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kairen

Hi

I have a running Apache server on my pc. I want to change
"localhost" so it will point to a dir on another pc in the local network. How to do that? Or where to look for an answer.

I tried googling this but couldn't find the right direction

Thanks.

you need to edit your hosts file: /etc/hosts
just replace the loopback IP number with your destination PCs IP number.

this should work right way

jschiwal · 09-12-2007, 05:13 AM

You don't want to do this. Localhost should just refer to the local machine. You could break interprocess communications , pipes and other things.