Chrome redirects .dev to https

Question

Suddenly Google Chrome redirects my virtual-host domain myapplication.dev to https://myapplication.dev. I already tried to go to

chrome://net-interna

Answer 1

MacOS Sierra, Apache: After Chrome 63 forces .dev top level domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS phpmyadmin on my mac stop works. I read this and just edit /etc/apache2/extra/http-vhosts.conf file:

  DocumentRoot "/Users/.../phpMyAdmin-x.y.z"
  ServerName phpmyadmin.localhost

and restart apache (by sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl stop; sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start ) - and now it works on http://phpmyadmin.localhost :) . For laravel applications solution is similar.

The nice thing is that using *.localhost top level domain when you set up new project you can forget about editing /etc/hosts.

How cool is that? :)

There's also an excellent proposal to add the .localhost domain as a new standard, which would be more appropriate here.

UPDATE 2018

Using *.localhost is not good - some applications will not support it like cURL (used by php-guzzle) - more details here. Better is to use *.local.