Update Tomcat to point at custom domain

Question

To navigate to local tomcat installation I use http://localhost:8080

Can Tomcat be configured so that when I run it locally it still navigates to http://localhost:8080 but I can specify a different host name ?

e.g when navigate to http://<MACHINE_NAME>.com:8080 redirects to http://localhost:8080 .

This is just for local development.

Answer 1

Think I may need to modify hosts file : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29