Logged out from admin by visiting front on .localhost domain

[Zeka]

I have moved my local development domain from .local to .localhost and after this, I'm logged out from admin every time I visit the front of the site. I have tested it on several installations. On .local domain I've used  ' $config->sessionFingerprint = 2; '. But on .localhost I have to change it to ' $config->sessionFingerprint = 0;' to solve the issue, but I can't understand why it worked on .local domain, but doesn't on .locahost. 

Do you have any idea what can cause it?  

Thanks, Eugene.

[dragan]

I don't know either, since I never used .local. But try to add localhost or 127.0.0.1 to your site/config.php file in the "allowed hosts" array. And maybe also delete everything that's inside site/assets/cache and reload everything.

[bernhard]

On 6/10/2018 at 1:10 PM, dragan said:

I don't know either, since I never used .local. But try to add localhost or 127.0.0.1 to your site/config.php file in the "allowed hosts" array. And maybe also delete everything that's inside site/assets/cache and reload everything.

Jep, and try it in a private window - maybe you have some old session cookies or browser cache / redirects that mess things up.

[Doug G]

.local is a special case top level domain.  My guess is your change messed up some dns resolution somewhere.  And I wouldn't use a tld of .localhost either, since localhost is a widely-used alias for 127.0.0.1  and is usually defined in a computer hosts file and may cause other unexpected confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local

 

[Zeka]

@dragan, @bernhard, @Doug G Thanks for answers. Flushing of DNS records helped and now it works with $config->sessionFingerprint = 2;

As for .localhost - I have chosen it as it was reserved for local testing and dev scenarios. 

Is there better domain name for local development? 

[szabesz]

1 hour ago, Zeka said:

Is there better domain name for local development? 

.test

https://webdevstudios.com/2017/12/12/google-chrome-63/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain

"RFC 6761 reserves the following four top-level domain names to avoid confusion and conflict.[18] Any such reserved usage of those TLDs should not occur in production networks that utilize the global domain name system:

example: reserved for use in examples
invalid: reserved for use in obviously invalid domain names
localhost: reserved to avoid conflict with the traditional use of localhost as a hostname
test: reserved for use in tests"