title: IIS 8 hosts friendly url not working
body: <p>I am hosting an application on the local IIS-8 on Windows 8.1 pro 64-bit. I want to access this application with hostname like www.testing.com or testing.com inspite of IP 127.0.0.1 or localhost. I have changed the configuration in the hosts file.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my configuration;  </p>
  
  <p>I have added following entries for the host at the last ;</p>
  
  <pre><code>127.0.0.1    testing.com
  127.0.0.1    www.testing.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Site view in connection pane looks like ;<br>
  <strong>-Sites</strong><br>
      -Default Web site<br>
      -WebApp    </p>
  
  <p>Bindings are as below ;<br>
  Type:http<br>
  IP Address : All unassigned<br>
  host name  : testing.com</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that the hosts file is being ignored and whenever I enter the address testing.com it redirects me to internet site testing.com and not locally hosted website.</p>
  
  <p>Please let me know what extra settings or improvements are required for this.   </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,<br>
  Anil</p>