Os Build: 18945 Can't access local development via domain name in hosts file

[scrossan-crown]

I love that localhost has been implimented in 18945 but we also need maping to 127.0.0.1 for use with the hosts file as this still isn't working so I still need to get the ip address each time i boot or shutdown wsl.

[SonicGD]

Hello. We are facing similar problem with wsl2 ports mapped to [::1] and not to 127.0.0.1 cause some of our libraries can't work with ipv6.

[scrossan-crown]

Is there a way to represent this in the hosts file?

[Drakota]

@scrossan-crown You can do this in your hosts file

127.0.0.1 yourdomain.local.com
::1 yourdomain.local.com

[scrossan-crown]

@Drakota I have tried that but it didn't work for me

[Drakota]

@scrossan-crown
At the moment there's alot of issue with localhost being inconsistent and not working sometimes so I think you're affected by this.

See
#4347
#4340

[kingwill101]

doesn't work for me

127.0.0.1 yourdomain.local.com
::1 yourdomain.local.com

[ghost]

@Drakota's solution works in 19018

[ZdenekKrcal]

@Drakota's solution works in 19018

This works:

127.0.0.1 test.loc www.test.loc
::1 test.loc www.test.loc

Yes, it works now but it is so slow. In WSL 1 loading websites under localhost was really fast but WSL 2 is too slow in this topic. I'm using apache2 + PHP and loading of websites is horrible. Ajax requests are slow too.

Website is stored in /mnt/c/webserver

[ZdenekKrcal]

It is necessary to move website to linux directory etc /home/username and then website is really fast now. But it would be nice to have same speed in /mnt/c

[Drakota]

@ZdenekKrcal For WSL 2, it is necessary to move it to a Linux partition. IIRC they are also working on improving this.

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