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I edited /etc/hosts file and entered below information : 

127.0.0.1    test.com  //working

127.0.0.1    https://test.com //not working .

from the above info, http://test.com is redirecting to 127.0.0.1, but https://test.com is not redirecting to 127.0.0.1 . Is there any way I can do that?

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/etc/hosts does not care about protocols, it handles host names. Moreover, // is not a comment character in /etc/hosts. See

man hosts

for details.

127.0.0.1 test.com

should be enough for redirecting both http and https. Do you run a service listening for https connections on your localhost?

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leave those commnents, i just entered them here . My use case is,in my website some parts of the code can be tested only with the domain name, and my website uses https . So, if it is just http, i can test locally with the domain name . But as it is https, I am unable to test locally . – user1506361 Aug 2 '12 at 13:43
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Once more: Is your local webserver configured to handle https requests? – choroba Aug 2 '12 at 13:48

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