This action will open ' NotePad' with administrative rights. When the result presents itself, please right-click on it and from the dropdown, select ' Run as administrator'.First, open your start menu and within the search field, type ' NotePad'.Please follow the steps below to open your hosts' file on a Windows machine: By adding a line or two in the ' hosts' file of your operating system, you can test all of the website's functionalities immediately, and when you make sure that they all work as expected, you can change the DNS records accordingly. Let's assume you have just moved a website on our servers, but you do not want to point your domain name immediately because you are worried that a specific function on your site does not work correctly on the new environment. This option is particularly useful after migrating your website to HostArmada, and you want to make sure the site is working correctly. In other words, you will instruct your computer to resolve domain names on specific IP addresses without the need of updating the DNS records for your domains.

By modifying the ' hosts' file, you will be able to ignore the current globally available DNS settings for your domains and make them resolve elsewhere but only for your local computer. The main and only purpose of the ' hosts' file is to map hostnames or domain names to IP addresses before the DNS, thus completely disabling the usage of that system. This list is called the ' hosts' file and it is stored within the system files of your operating system.

However, before the DNS service kicks in, your operating system has the option to return the IP address of a domain name that is on a special list. Typically the DNS service will kick in finding the requested IP address and then it will deliver it to your Web Browser so you can access the desired website. Whenever you access a website by entering a domain name in the Web Browser of your local computer or mobile phone the first thing that your device will do is to search for the IP address of the accessed domain name.

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