Generate a proper 404 page for blocked sites via /etc/hosts instead of redirect to localhost
- by Mixhael
I have blocked some websites by editing /etc/hosts and adding several newline-entries in the following manner:
0.0.0.0 www.domain.com
And it works. The only thing is: when a website is visited which is blocked, the browser is redirected to my http://localhost, resulting in a directory listing or website-presentation that is running within my localhost root-environment.
It's not a very big problem, but I prefer a standard error that mentions the website cannot be visited (for instance by a 404 page). Is this possible?