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Do all webservers running locally rely on the /etc/hosts file?

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I'm running the Django webserver locally, and I want be able to enter www.my-site.dev or username.my-site.dev and have that map to my Django application.

I've seen a lot of solutions for Apache, and have tried to add the following to my /etc/hosts file, assuming the Django server would also check /etc/hosts.

127.0.0.1:8000 www.my-site.dev  

127.0.0.1:8000 username.my-site.dev

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answered 2 Years ago jectedrin · Accepted Answer

A few things

1) Django probably isn't referencing your hosts file. ( I say probably, because I don't use Django, but it doesn't make sense for it to reference the hosts file as it shouldn't need to do a lookup on itself).

2) The hosts is for local name resolution. It has nothing to do with ports. If you want those two sites to resolve to your local machine, you should have this in your hosts file.

127.0.0.1     www.my-site.dev    username.my-site.dev

You can then access the site via your web browser by going to

www.my-site.dev:8000

The only way for you to not have to type in the 8000 is for you to make Django listen on port 80 (or providing you are doing SSL, 443). This should be configurable in Django, and shouldn't cause any issues (unless you are already running something that is using port 80).