How to change my windows hosts file

  • I cannot connect to my homepage through the internal lan. From outside it is working like it should. So i have to change my hosts file, wich should be pretty straightforward, but I cannot seem to get it right.

    Internal, my wordpresssite is at https://192.168.1.70:85/wordpress
    External it is at https://84.245.xx.xx:85/wordpress

    I added the following line to my hosts file:

    192.168.1.70 84.245.xx.xx

    But i still cant reach it. Anyone?

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  • I don’t think you can do that with a HOSTS file. HOSTS is intended to convert names to IP addresses, not a private IP address to a public address.

    Have you considered registering a domain name for your site? A free subdomain from a service like DynDNS would do the job. You could then use the domain name externally, and get your HOSTS entry to look like this:

    192.168.1.70 yoursite.domain.com

    Thread Starter Hans C

    (@hans-c)

    I have considered that, but I like to be independent of companies etc. It surely must be possible to work on a site from within your own LAN?

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