Chrome does not follow hosts file

Question

I have custom domains set up for internal web site testing in my /etc/hosts file.

I try to access them in Chrome, and I get routed to a Google search instead. But when I ping the domains, they show that they are working.

What should I do to make sure I can access these sites in Chrome?

Chrome dev team says they WontFix this. The extension Host Switch Plus does not work for me. — zylstra, Mar 18 '17 at 01:37

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '12 at 03:47

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Disable "Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors" in Chrome's Settings under Privacy. Try flushing Chrome's cache after disabling this and see if it works then.

answered Aug 17 '12 at 03:47

Kale Muscarella

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This is a less-optimal way of solving it. Without http:// in front of the domain, Chrome may assume that you've made a "navigation error" / lazy search. With http:// it shouldn't argue. – BowlesCR Jan 29 '14 at 18:20

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 15 '12 at 15:29

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You can just throw an http:// in front of your local address; that worked for me.

edited Sep 15 '12 at 15:29

slhck

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answered Sep 13 '12 at 17:01

Derek DeRaps

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This should do it. By declaring the http:// protocol up front Chrome should assume you know what you're doing and just try the address as given instead of trying to be helpful. – BowlesCR Jan 29 '14 at 18:22
Doesn't worked for me. The Chome just writes «Couldn't retrieve URL», although plain ping there works like a charm. – Hi-Angel Sep 30 '14 at 12:26

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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As the answer in stackoverflow, the solution for me was adding ::1 in /etc/hosts like:

127.0.0.1 foo.domain.local
::1 foo.domain.local

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community

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answered Nov 16 '12 at 15:48

konus

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This really shouldn't affect the situation unless you're trying to override the domain name of a real site that happens to be IPv6 enabled and point it back to your local machine. – BowlesCR Jan 29 '14 at 18:21

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 29 '14 at 15:07

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just use the domains like so http://localstite.dev/ .

It's the "/" at the end to resolve the host...

answered Jan 29 '14 at 15:07

Phil

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 15 '12 at 15:29

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In /etc/hosts list them like this:

192.168.0.4 foo.localdomain

Now when you type foo.domain in the address bar it will still return search results but you should see a bar asking you if you meant to go to foo.localdomain instead.

Strangely once I had got Chrome to do this once it started doing it for single host names in /etc/hosts but I had to use the host.domain form first.

edited Sep 15 '12 at 15:29

slhck

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answered Aug 17 '12 at 03:02

tallus

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I don't even get that bar. It's a fully-qualified domain name too. – psion Aug 17 '12 at 03:43

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