There is a simple chrome extension " OK". Which runs a web server on localhost. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Localhost on Windows 7 Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 6 months ago. Active 4 years, 1 month ago.
Viewed 89k times. Anyone knows how? MERose 3, 7 7 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 73 73 bronze badges. Jo Colina Jo Colina 1, 5 5 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. In other words, you could order your computer to load a different IP address than the DNS server would, essentially letting you do a few cool things.
One reason to edit the hosts file is if you want a super basic way to block websites from loading on your computer. Enter an invalid or wrong IP address for the site you want to block, and each time you try accessing it, the hosts file will load the IP address you chose.
Depending on what you picked, it might c ompletely block the website. You can use the same technique to make the hosts file block malicious sites. There are even lists of hosts file entries such as this one you can download and import into your hosts file to block hundreds of malicious sites or ads.
Another use for the hosts file is to speed up your web browsing. Tip : Learn how to use alternate DNS servers to get faster internet access. You need to know where to go to find the hosts file before you can open it for editing. This is the hosts file location in Windows 10 through Windows XP:.
JoshCampbell We are not discussing the possibility of serving the webpage without one of popular webservers. The discussion is about seeing blank page in a browser even if IIS or Apache is not installed.
For example if other service is installed and configured to listen on port 80 - it will send some response to browser after connecting. This will not be a html but some unicode chars for example. Browser will accept and interpret this as empty response and will display the blank page. Connection on the network layer has been established hence no error message displayed by browser.
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