Windows 10: How to eliminate need for "localhost" prefix in Edge, localhosted site

Okay, just to ensure I understand you, you mean that you can go to a locally hosted site just by putting the site name in the URL bar without prefixing it with 'localhost/', in other words, you can go to a site named 'router' by putting:

Code: router/[/quote] ...in your URL bar in Edge, not:

Code: localhost/router/[/quote] Is that correct? If so, could you please share with me (i.e. post here) the settings you put in your Windows HOSTS file as well as the configuration in the XAMPP HTTPD-VHOSTS.CONF file so I can try to duplicate your result in Edge and the other browsers?

 

Entering the IP of my router inside the HOSTS file just was the first step for me to see, if Edge would generally obey the HOSTS file. It does. *Smile I can access the router now by simply typing "router", without "locahost/" in front of it, inside the address bar. Note however, that this router is in my local network, but it is not localhost.

I'll see, if I can get it running with XAMPP...