Hello,
I thinked about an issue for 2 days but without any result, it’s about url: [host: host] in config.exs, sorry Iam new to Phoenix and to Web Development in general so to describe the problem in short :
Consider I want to create a website from my home server, first I need to rent a domain (right ?) for example myapp.com, then I will add my server ip and hostname to the hosting website (.com), so by this each time a client tap www.myapp.com/.... in the browser search bar, he will be redirected to my server via dns(right ?) , my question is:
Where will be url: [host: host] used or concerned here ? and what is the real usecase of it ?
Thank you in advance.
if you have registered the domain name myapp.com, you would set url: [host: "myapp.com"]
you can set host to “localhost” to run in on your local machine in your dev config
The purpose of this configuration key is for URL generation. This means that when you ask Phoenix Router’s helper functions for the full URL, such as Routes.your_route_url(...), it will use this domain to form the URL.
Thanks @Nicd, I think this is one of the usecases, but how about others like its use by the Web Search Engines and Web Crawlers ?
