Daily Archives: April 25, 2015

Use of “localhost” when installing Magento 2 (Quick Note)

I never quite understood why using localhost as the host name did not work with Magento, for example when developing on your laptop Using 127.0.0.1 works, but localhost does not. For a while I thought it was some weird Magento restriction I did not understand, but the penny finally dropped when someone explained it (again) to me recently. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134290/cookies-on-localhost-with-explicit-domain#16652347 has […]