[Question] Can I test in localhost? about caprover HOT 9 CLOSED

You need a wildcard DNS entry. /etc/hosts won't work. Try this:

you can simply run a local DNS server on your local machine and point
*.captain-x (wild card domain) to your local IP. A simple hosts change won't be useful as we need a wildcard entry.
On ubuntu 16, it's as simple of editing this file:
/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/dnsmasq-localhost.conf (create if does not exist)
And add this line to it: address=/captain.x/192.168.1.2 where 192.168.1.2 is your local IP address.
To make sure you have dnsmasq, you can run which dnsmasq on your terminal, if it's available,
path of it will be printed on the terminal, otherwise, there won't be anything printed on your terminal.

Taken from https://github.com/githubsaturn/captainduckduck/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#runnig-dev-environment

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Sorry for not reading the documentation, I tried that as well but can't figure out how to get working.

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What platform are you trying this on? At what step did you get stuck?

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I resolved, I am using Ubuntu I had a dnsmasq but I think it didn't work correctly so I installed using apt install, and I edited this file only:
/etc/dnsmasq.conf and restarted the service.

Thanks.

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Now when using :
captainduckduck serversetup I have this response:

Error: 1107
Error: Unexpected output when enabling SSL forcaptain.captain.x with ACME Certbot 
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Obtaining a new certificate
An unexpected error occurred:
The request message was malformed :: Error creating new authz :: Name does not end in a public suffix
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.

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Of course, you cannot enable https on localhost. Just use plain captainduckduck login.

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Sorry didn't know that existed another command to login.

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Any way to configure DNS on windows? the default host file does not support wildcards.

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Google suggests this one can be used:
http://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=AcrylicHome

DISCLAIMER: I never used it! I just found it on Google

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