If you however you have an entire site You are trying to navigate through the pages of your website which you are internal accommodation. To do this you will need to add the external IP address for the local IP address of the system that hosts the page or website. By change the IP address in the URL to the local address to which you can now see the page or website or database hosted this can be a main ache to have to keep change the external IP address or domain name. To get round this you should make an entry in the Windows host file. This is a text file called hosts.

If you however you have a entire site or database hosted this can be a main ache to have to keep change the external IP address or domain name. To get round this you should make an entry in the Windows host file. This is a text file called hosts. It is placed in.

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ (on Windows XP)

C:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\ (on Windows 2000)

The entry will forward the external IP address or domain to the local internal IP address hosting the pages / website.