How does one do development on with facebook's oauth when there is a domain name restriction?

Question

Facebook does not allow callbacks on ip addresses. So how does one test their facebook authentication oauth sign up flow on their own computer as opposed to the production domain?

Answer 1

Point yourdomain.com to your test server (127.0.0.1, if I got that right) by editing your /etc/hosts file.

And yes, by /etc/hosts I also meant C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, obviously.