Change .dev domains to .test by default

typicode / hotel

🏩 A simple process manager for developers. Start apps from your browser and access them using local domains

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Change .dev domains to .test by default #252

Closed yagudaev closed 6 years ago

yagudaev commented 6 years ago

Google which owns the .dev TLD has issued a requirement for all domains under this TLD to use HTTPS. This means that hotel redirects to the HTTPS version of the test domain we are using.

https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-domains-https-via-preloaded-hsts/

We fixed it for our hotel install by changing the ~/.hotel/conf.json to have a .test tld instead of .dev.

We should change the defaults in hotel and the documentation to avoid this issue.

The error it produces is also very confusing it says either:

ERR_ICANN_NAME_COLLISION

NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

tiagofscoelho commented 6 years ago

I would suggest to use .local instead of .test. It has more meaning, no? But definitely this should be fixed :)

joeyaurel commented 6 years ago

@tiagofscoelho In 1999 the IETF reserved Top Level DNS Names such as .test, .example, .invalid and .localhost. Changing .dev to .local might not be future safe as .local is not reserved and might be bought. (Yay, same happened to .dev.)

I'd consider using one of the reserved names described there. (Like .test as metioned before.)

fengb commented 6 years ago

.local is also used by Bonjour / mdns

typicode commented 6 years ago

Good point and thanks for the links 👍 .localhost is now the default domain (see also https://github.com/typicode/hotel/issues/218)