How to Edit Your Hosts File on Windows

Windows 8 or 8.1 or 10

You can use this to see any website created on your server by tricking your PC to look at the domain server rather than go through DNS. VERY handy if your domain name is not correctly pointed towards your domain hosts!

Unfortunately Windows 8 or 10/11 makes it annoying to open apps as administrator — but it’s not too difficult. Just search for Notepad or Notepad++, then right-click on Notepad in the search results list, and choose to run it as administrator. If you’re using Windows 10/11 this will be on the Start Menu.

Once you’ve done so, open up the following file using the File -> Open feature.

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Notepad IP config