Windows hosts: how can I redirect HTTPS site?
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00:00 Windows Hosts: How Can I Redirect Https Site?
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 12
The following in your hosts file
127.0.0.1 example.com
...makes both http://example.com and https://example.com go to 127.0.0.1, hence: your own machine. (Even more: anything that refers to example.com, such as ping or telnet would go to 127.0.0.1 when run from your computer.)
Apparently you have a web server running on your own computer on port 80 (HTTP), but nothing on port 443 (HTTPS). Even more, getting ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED actually proves your hosts file is used, as otherwise you would see the default website from https://example.com.
Note that if you would have the server on your computer also support HTTPS on port 443, you'd get certificate errors, as there is no way you can buy a certificate for the domain example.com.
ANSWER 2
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I got tricked thinking that the site serves traffic via https://example.com where in fact the URL is using a subdomain e.g. https://www.example.com In that case just add one more record to the hosts file with www.example.com like below:
127.0.0.1 example.com 127.0.0.1 www.example.com
Or in fact to avoid errors on local web server (if you are running one for development purposes)
0.0.0.0 example.com 0.0.0.0 www.example.com
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The following in your hosts file, working for me:
127.0.0.1 https://example.com 127.0.0.1 https://www.example.com