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Ingo Steinke, web developer • Edited

Possibly do more research:

  • Maybe there is a WordPress plugin to allow alternative URLs?
  • ... and shouldn't " localhost URLs will automatically change to bs-local.com" mean that the client / network tunnel software should be in charge to rewrite any localhost url to bs-local on the fly without any project configuration change?

Done more research (and updated the original post later, see postscriptum (P.S.) paragraph:

  • Should I make a fallback entry in /etc/hosts to map bs-local.com to localhost 127.0.0.1 or would that break the BS client?
    • Adding a fallback entry does not seem to harm the client.