Redirecting Websites

[Nerwin]

Alright, This is a tough one.....

What I want to do, Is to redirect a website to go to another website.

Like, if someone types in www.myspace.com it goes to like www.google.com or something like that. Now, I do know this is possible, cause my networking teacher said it was and it just requires some hacking or configuring or something... and, I really want to do this cause it will be really funny to play this trick on my brother!!

Thanks guys!!!!!

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

the file you are looking for is called the hosts file and its located in

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

there will be a line that says

127.0.0.1       localhost

the first # is the IP address of the site you want to redirect to and the second is the site to redirect from

just add a line (or lines) below that

64.233.167.147       myspace.com

that will redirect myspace.com to 64.233.167.147(google)

just do me a favor and keep it nice (don't redirect him to porn)

another fun trick is to take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as wallpaper and turn off desktop icons and autohide the startmenu to the right side of the screen

[Nerwin]

Thanks dude!!, Nah, He has Myspace and I dont like myspace and he should not be using it, cause it get to you.. and plus, I'm trying to be a network admin.. so yeah but it will be funny!

thanks again man!!!

[Nerwin]

I did, Try it and it works like www.myspace.com, if I go type myspace.com, it goes to google, but if it type www.myspace.com it goes to myspace

is there another way, that will map that HTTP one to google or something?

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

yeah you should be able to use

64.233.167.147 www.myspace.com
64.233.167.147 myspace.com

[Idontwantspam]

To do this on a larger scale, which is way overkill for what you're doing, but schools and businesses use a squid server. I think it can do stuff like that.

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

yeah we have 2 blades running ubuntu fiesty with dansguardian.

which reminds me -i need to upgrade them to gutsy