NAT Loopback/Hairpinning/NAT Reflection - whatever you want to call it - is not working

[superglidecory]

My router provided by my ISP is not compatible with NAT loopback. I cannot access my self-hosted site from within my own home network. I can access my website from a proxy or from outside the network, but not on my own wifi. There are dozens of Google results for NAT loopback (I've seen them all), so I won't elaborate further on what it is. My question is how do I solve this problem? I want to somehow configure a raspberry pi to serve as a DNS server, but how would I do this? I know I cam not the only one with this problem because I've seen countless other posts in numerous other forums about this matter, and no solution has worked yet.

Edited November 3, 2022 by superglidecory

[superglidecory]

Ok, so I found a solution.

Edit the hosts file on your OS and put the LAN address with your domain name. In Ubuntu, the hosts file is located at /ect/hosts. On Windows 10, its C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts. Add your to it as needed.

Example:

192.168.254.254 blahblah.com