Mac Web Page Redirection


I posted how to redirect web pages for Windows and thought I’d show you how to do it on a Mac.

You will need to edit /private/etc/hosts.

$ ls -l /private/etc/hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 746 Oct 4 18:59 /private/etc/hosts
$ cat /private/etc/hosts
 ##
 # Host Database
 #
 # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
 # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
 ##
 127.0.0.1 localhost
 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
 ::1 localhost
 fe80::1%lo0 localhost
$ sudo vi /private/etc/hosts

Add the following to the end of the file

68.71.208.75 google.com
68.71.208.75 www.google.com
68.71.208.75 facebook.com
68.71.208.75 www.facebook.com

Then flush the DNS cache.

$ dscacheutil -flushcache