Here is how to change localhost to domain name in Windows 10. Have you ever thought about how to change or rename your localhost address with a domain name you like?. For me when I found that I can change localhost address to a domain. I was so excited to use my favourite domain name, instead of localhost. Have you decided to change your Localhost name to a specific domain name? Like many other developers and me. Here Is How to change your localhost address to your favourite domain name.

Change Localhost to Domain Name

Here are two easy methods to change your Windows localhost address to the domain name.

Method One:  Using Hosts file

Step – 1: Run your notepad or any other text editor as administrator. A dialogue box will pop up and ask you “Do you Want to Allow This App to Make Changes to Your Device?”  Click Yes

Step – 2: From the Menu bar of Notepad go to File>open and open the following Directory

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Or go to MyComputer>Drive C>Windows>System32>Drivers>etc>

By default, you won’t be able to see the files located in them, etc. folder to see the existing files, Change the Document text to all files from the extension tab of notepad.

Once you changed the extension tab to all files, you will see the following files in the folder

hosts, Imhosts.sam, networks, protocol, services

Step – 3: Open the host’s file and write down your favourite domain name

After opening the “hosts” file that will look as below. Here you can add your favourite domain name with the same IP address as I have added the Dev.com with the IP of 127.0.0.1.

Note: you can add as many domains as you want to add.

Method Two: Wamp Server Tools

This technique is a  little bit easier than method one. To change your localhost to domain name all you need to do is run your wamp server and go to localhost page.

In the Localhost page, on the tool section, click on Add A Virtual Host then you will be guided to the following page.

Like the page, itself has the guide in the first input field write your domain name without space, Underscore and diacritical characters. 

The second input field is optional; you can add an IP address, or leave it empty.

The third input field goes to the address of the wamp server which is common as below.

C:/wamp64/www   or  C:/wamp/www/

Once you are done with the above steps, click on the Start, the creation of the virtual host.

Then go to wamp and rightclick>tool>restartDNS that’s it. Now open your browser and type your domain name to open the localhost page.

Final word:

I know you, like me, and many other techies enjoy learning new things every day and to build up your skills, improve in your filed and have more grip on your passion.

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Local Web Server is the computer with server operating system to host Websites. It runs network protocols and services to function entirely for running written codes by different programming languages and databases like MySQL or MSSQL Server. Creating such a server need more money, configuration skills and daily maintenance.

Well, to have a home web server for running your written script or testing content management system (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, you don’t need a reliable computer and web server operating system. All you need to do this to install a web development platform which contains PHP engine for running  Scripts and MySQL Server for using as database and Apache Web Server. These are all pretty enough for our home and Free Web Server Lab.

There are many web development platforms with the same functionality for creating a local web server. In this article, we try to use WAMP server. If you are a Windows user, you can use WAMP Server or XAMPP Server. For Linux user better to use LAMP Server or some alternative.

First download the WAMP server from here according to your operating system architecture. If your PC operating system is x64bit, so you must download 64bit version of WAMP server. To know your OS architecture, right click computer icon’s on desktop and click Properties. You can see what is your OS. See the screenshot.

When you click the download link a new popup page will appear. Just do as the instruction. Click the download directly link.

Download the setup files and two necessary updates if you don’t have already installed them on your PC.

When the download has complete run the WAMP Server setup file and continue by clicking Yes to run as administrator.

Click next on the first page.

Accept the license agreement and click next.

Chose which directory you want to install Wamp Server and click next.

Tick create a desktop icon on the select additional tasks and click next.

Now click Install button in Ready to install page.

It takes a minute to extract all files. When extracting complete successfully, ask you to select a browser as default web browser for Wamp Server.

Just select each browser you have on your system and click Open. I’m using Google Chrome for this purpose.

Maybe Windows Firewall will ask you about allowing Wamp Server access to public network. In this page only click allow access and continue.

Leave the PHP mail parameters page by default and click next.

Finally click finish button to close the setup page.

Now the Wamp icon must appear to the Windows Taskbar.

Just click Wamp Server icon and open the Localhost link.

This is the home page of your local Web Server.

As web developer or programmer you can can write and test your code locally, also install CMS and test your website before you lunch it publicly trough the internet.

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