Question

I’m willing to test Django project, but I want to access it using “example.com“. Before I used “127.0.0.1:8000“ (manage.py runserver), but now I have need to test how my project acts on different TLDs. All I want to do is somehow tell my computer that “example.com“ points to “127.0.0.1:8000“. I don’t want others to have access to it, so it’s not question about deployment.

I am Linux user. Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

sudo vi /etc/hosts and add the following line at the end.

127.0.0.1 example.com

Also, if you run the web server as root, you can use port 80 and not have to type example.com:8000 into the address bar.