TIL - WSL2 Mirrored Network Mode

Found this trying to ressurect this ‘blog’:

Microsoft recently added a “Mirrored” networking mode that makes WSL2 and Windows share the same network stack. This makes localhost behave exactly like it does on a Mac or Linux machine.

In Windows, go to your user folder: C:\Users<YourUsername>.

1. Create (or edit) a file named .wslconfig. Add these lines:

    [wsl2]
    networkingMode=mirrored
   

2. Open PowerShell as Administrator and restart WSL:

    wsl --shutdown
   

3. Restart your Jekyll server.

Now, localhost:4000 should just work without the –host flag.