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

The more secure option would be to add allowedHosts to your Webpack config like this:

module.exports = {
devServer: {
 allowedHosts: [
  'host.com',
  'subdomain.host.com',
  'subdomain2.host.com',
  'host2.com'
   ]
  }
};

The array contains all allowed host, you can also specify subdomians. check out more here