Setting up a local.host alias for localhost on windows

I'm trying to setup everyauth for my node app. Although I've reached a step that I have no idea how to accomplish.

It's asking to setup local.host as an alias for localhost, but it references some linux folders, I'm using windows.

Here's the exact instructions I'm stumped on.

Important - Some OAuth Providers do not allow callbacks to localhost, so you will need to create a localhost alias called local.host. Make sure you set up your /etc/hosts so that 127.0.0.1 is also associated with 'local.host'. So inside your /etc/hosts file, one of the lines will look like: '127.0.0.1 localhost local.host'

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How do you accomplish this on windows?

Solution

This can be done by editing you hosts file. Open notepad++ (or notepad) as admin. Then hit open, and select C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. You will see:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# ...
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost

And add this line at the end:

127.0.0.1       local.host

Save and you're done