Drupal clean urls .htaccess

[rowan]

Ok so in my hosts file I have

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1      localhost
81.17.252.145  mydomain.com

But mydomain.com doesn't get redirected...

[Tara]

Hi Rowan,

You'll have to put in your own domain name. The one that you set up the hosting package with. Use this in place of mydomain.com

[rowan]

That is what i'm doing, I just don't want to write it here ...

[Tara]

Ah I'm sorry Rowan! That's fair enough.

Are you behind a proxy or on a college\work network or anything? That might be overwriting your hosts file settings.

[rowan]

no just on an open connection.
Ok never mind for now, i'll probably just set up the site and change dns over while crossing a number of fingers, a bit of downtime is not much bother for me.

Thanks for all the help