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Last Updated: 2024-11-21
My localhosts subdomain-parsing in OxbridgeNotes was working in test and development environments but had a bug in production. I didn't want to have to deploy each time to try alternatives so I came up with this temporary solution:
The trick to simulating production URLs locally, without modifying the actual
network, it to modify the /etc/hosts file.
By doing the following, I was able to test-drive URLs like www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk in development and debug.
127.0.0.1 www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk
127.0.0.1 www.oxbridgenotes.com
127.0.0.1 en-au.oxbridgenotes.com