Anyone having issues with /etc/hosts on MacOS ?

I'm trying to set up an entry in my /etc/hosts to map 127.0.0.1 to a website I'm working on. It's not working. The weird part is that when I ping it ping web.site it is correctly routing to 127.0.0.1 but it wouldn't work in the browser. I just bought my laptop a couple of days ago so this definitely isn't a browser cache issue or something like that (AFAIK at least) Any thoughts ?
6 Replies
dan
dan10mo ago
include the port on the browser side. e.g. if this is a next app youd do web.site:3000 (3000 being the default port for nextjs)
_zirve
_zirve10mo ago
I need to do it without specifying the port since another app will connect to it I set up a reverse proxy using nginx but that comes with a new set of problems I suppose Thanks for the response!
dan
dan10mo ago
you can have the other app connect using the port
_zirve
_zirve10mo ago
Not my code The thing is
dan
dan10mo ago
then nginx rev proxy would be the best bet / some other rev proxy
_zirve
_zirve10mo ago
This used to work fine on my Linux machine before switching So yeah reverse proxy is prolly the way to go