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Use .localhost pointing at 127.0.0.1 for local development. It is reserved for this purpose and obvious to everyone unlike .test. For reference your options ar

Use .localhost pointing at 127.0.0.1 for local development. It is reserved for this purpose and obvious to everyone unlike .test. For reference your options are: .test .example .invalid .localhost https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 With only .localhost fitting the purpose of most people's usage of .dev.

tomjen3 9y ago
So what if I want to test a website under development from my phone? .test is more correct.
- chairmanwow 9y ago
  This sounds like a really useful thing to do. How do you set something like this up in a dev environment?
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - TwelveNights 9y ago
    If you use Chrome and have an Android device which also has Chrome installed, you could check out this tutorial: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remote-debugging/ https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remo...
- hartror 9y ago
  If you are sharing DNS on a private network then the convention is .local. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
michaelsbradley 9y ago
For quick and dirty arbitrary localhost domain names, I setup localhost.dog. Try: dig any localhost.dog dig any thing.localhost.dog dig any you.want.localhost.dog I find it useful, though its uses are admittedly limited. TTL is 30 days, but some resolvers (e.g. Google's 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) dial it back to 1 day.
- hartror 9y ago
  https://icannwiki.org/.dog https://icannwiki.org/.dog
  - michaelsbradley 9y ago
    Was there something specific on that page you thought merited attention?
    - michaelsbradley 9y ago
      I realize now you may have not understood (because I wasn't clear) when I originally wrote "I setup localhost.dog". I meant that I registered the domain name, and setup the A,AAAA DNS records (including wildcards) to point to 127.0.0.1.
      - hartror 9y ago
        Ah right that makes sense.

tomjen3 9y ago

So what if I want to test a website under development from my phone? .test is more correct.

chairmanwow 9y ago
This sounds like a really useful thing to do. How do you set something like this up in a dev environment?
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- TwelveNights 9y ago
  If you use Chrome and have an Android device which also has Chrome installed, you could check out this tutorial: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remote-debugging/ https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remo...
hartror 9y ago
If you are sharing DNS on a private network then the convention is .local. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

michaelsbradley 9y ago

For quick and dirty arbitrary localhost domain names, I setup localhost.dog. Try: dig any localhost.dog dig any thing.localhost.dog dig any you.want.localhost.dog I find it useful, though its uses are admittedly limited. TTL is 30 days, but some resolvers (e.g. Google's 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) dial it back to 1 day.

hartror 9y ago
https://icannwiki.org/.dog https://icannwiki.org/.dog
- michaelsbradley 9y ago
  Was there something specific on that page you thought merited attention?
  - michaelsbradley 9y ago
    I realize now you may have not understood (because I wasn't clear) when I originally wrote "I setup localhost.dog". I meant that I registered the domain name, and setup the A,AAAA DNS records (including wildcards) to point to 127.0.0.1.
    - hartror 9y ago
      Ah right that makes sense.