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I am having a problem trying to access a development website on a local Windows server. Other sites on the box are fine.

I have an entry in the router to redirect dev.websitename.com to 192.168.1.71 and the server is waiting for that domain to be requested. Other sites on the same box, set up the same way, work fine.

When I type dev.websitename.com into Firefox (or Chrome) I get an error:

Server not found Firefox can't find the server at wwww.websitename.com.

^ Note the four w (wwww)

There is no entry in my hosts file. If I ping the website address I get the correct IP (192.168.1.71) and if I do an nslookup I also get the correct answer.

Any ideas?

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Lesson learnt: check the .htaccess file. – Alex Dec 6 '11 at 10:24
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