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I am trying to setup a development server in house. Our IP points to our live server but we have seperate servers set on different ports.

For example our testing server could be on: 

external: 97.95.xxx.xxx:1234
internal: 192.168.0.100:1234

We can view the test server by entering either ip in our browsers. We want to change all our development computers to access that server by entering "testserver". We have logged in and edited 

C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

We have added the following line of code to the systems with no success.

97.95.xxx.xxx:1234          testserver

If we remove the port number it will connect to our live system. Is there another system we need to edit to use that port?

James
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when you add the port, your hosts edit is simply wrong.

according to example your hosts entry must look like

97.95.xxx.xxx          testserver

and accessing the testsystem would be f.e.

http://testserver:1234

or

telnet testserver 1234

whatever connectiontype / purpose your connection is.

Mirco Ellmann
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It seems that you cannot set ports in the hosts-file,

but there seems to be a way to forward the port: port-forwarding-in-windows

src: no ports with hosts serverfault

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