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Asked: 2026-05-27T23:12:58+00:00

I’m trying to use a local server on my mac, but it seems to

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I’m trying to use a local server on my mac, but it seems to ignore the localhost settings in the /etc/hosts file. Found several pages where solution was to do a reinstall, and put localhost to the first place of /etc/hosts etc… I believe these are more than needed.

Does anybody still have the same problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found that behind proxy by the default only the *.local is excluded, so just need to add localhost and 127.0.0.1 to avoid DNS resolution on the local machine. Put

    *.local, localhost, 127.0.0.1

    into the following setting dialog:

    System Preferences/Network/Advanced/Proxies/Bypass proxy settings for
    these Hosts & Domains

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