I am getting an “Invalid Host header” message when connecting to webpack-dev-server remotely

Question

I am using as an environment, a Cloud9.io ubuntu VM Online IDE and I have reduced by troubleshooting this error to just running the app with Webpack dev server.

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Answer 1

I found out, that I need to set the public property of devServer, to my request's host value. Being that it will be displayed at that external address.

So I needed this in my webpack.config.js

devServer: {
  compress: true,
  public: 'store-client-nestroia1.c9users.io' // That solved it
}

Another solution is using it on the CLI:

webpack-dev-server --public $C9_HOSTNAME <-- var for Cloud9 external IP