.localhost Domains

Thanks for sharing!

This is cool, but it only seems to work on the host that has the /etc/hosts loopback redirect to *.localhost. I run my app on a home server and access it from multiple PCs on the LAN. I have several apps, each associated with a different port number. Right now, I rely on a start page (https://github.com/dh1011/start-ichi) to keep track of all those ports. I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to resolve custom domains to each of those apps?

You need to install a DNS server in your network and configure everything to use it (probably via DHCP). Then you can configure whatever you like. Dnsmasq is quite easy to get started. There are handy integrated solutions like pihole that combine DHCP and DNS. I run things like this on my router (opnsense).