Drupal localhost redirecting to www.localhost.com

Question

I am working on a drupal site which I checked out (svn) to my localhost.

Now the problem is that when I go to:

http://www.site.com

Answer 1

Have you checked your window's hosts file? Not sure about where it lives in Windows 7, but in XP it lives here:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Make sure there is an entry like this:

127.0.0.1       localhost

As a double-check, you may want to flush your PCs DNS cache. Go into the command line and type:

ipconfig /flushdns