Accessing the Tomcat Web app running on my Windows machine

[Tony Ayre]

>
> Normally you hostname will be looked up in a local file, if its not  
> found then DNS is queried. In windows, its "C:/Windows/System/ 
> hosts", I think. In Linux, its in /etc/hosts. So if you want to  
> access your Windows PC by using its hostname then add a line to  
> your /etc/hosts file. Like this, where 192.168.8.3 is the IP  
> address of your Windows machine:
>
>   127.0.0.1     localhost.localdomain localhost
>   192.168.8.3   xpc-sn25p
>

Just a correction for the Windows line. It is in c:\windows\system32 
\drivers\etc\hosts - convoluted I know.

Cheers
Tony Ayre
localzuk at gmail.com