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I run a web server just on my local network on a Windows XP machine using IIS. The main app I created keeps track of all my bookmarks so that no matter which computer I'm using in my home, I have super easy access to all my bookmarks via a well organized web site managed through a database.

I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a separate machine that I'm rebuilding. Currently, I'm able to access files on the web server from ubuntu for file sharing purposes but Firefox redirects me to a random site when I try to access the website like I normally do in Windows. The url is similar to:

http://mywebserver/myapp/script.pl

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Try adding an entry for mywebserver in your /etc/hosts file.

e.g. if your Windows Server has IP a.b.c.d try appending the following line in your /etc/hosts file

sudoedit /etc/hosts

Then enter the following, replacing a.b.c.d with the IP address and mywebserver with what you would like to use in the URL field.

a.b.c.d     mywebserver
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