Binding a host address to localhost in Linux

Question

How to bind the example.com address to the local box?

I'm enhancing a website, which is written so that 'example.com' is hard coded as its host. How do I do a loop back in Firefox in response to a 'example.com' request?

Answer 1

Add '127.0.0.1 example.com' to the /etc/hosts file:

sudo bash -c 'echo 127.0.0.1    example.com >> /etc/hosts'

This will be system wide, not just for firefox.