I use a subdomain and run it in the form of dev.<myactualdomain>.com . I add a record to my /etc/hosts file to redirect it to 127.0.0.1. This also means for htt

I use a subdomain and run it in the form of dev.<myactualdomain>.com . I add a record to my /etc/hosts file to redirect it to 127.0.0.1. This also means for https stuff I have a valid certificate to use as well. One more note. I almost never run anything on any port other than port 80/443. Any application I work on generally has nginx sitting in front of it with a simple proxy_pass rule.