What are the differences between accessing a home server via "http://localhost/" and "http://myhost/" when using XAMPP?

When accessing a home server via "http://localhost/", the request is directed to the local machine where the server is running. However, when using "http://myhost/", the request is directed to the specified hostname, which may not be resolved properly if not configured correctly. To solve this issue, you can update the hosts file on your machine to map the hostname "myhost" to the local IP address. 

// Update the hosts file to map "myhost" to the local IP address
$hosts_file = 'C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts';
$ip_address = '127.0.0.1';
$hostname = 'myhost';

$hosts_entry = $ip_address . ' ' . $hostname;

file_put_contents($hosts_file, $hosts_entry . PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);

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