Hosts file - IP-Address Translated to Hostname - Performed on Windows Workstations

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The reason you might be interested in this is that it replaces the need to put an IP-Address to navigate to the Web-interface on windows machines.

We need to edit the file located in:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
“hosts”

Edit this file in your favorite editor. Note this will need to be run in administrative mode in order to complete the edit.

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Should navigate to Mycodo when throwing
Http://mycodo
In the web-browser.

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Note for Chrome I had to trust this as a source before it allowed me to navigate

open a cmd and try to ping mycodo to verify… should translate to its IP
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