How to use a different local domain than test with laravel sail

I am struggling with something so simple...

I have a new laravel app with sail. Visiting laravel.test works.

Trying to modify this domain to something like acme.dev is giving me a headache.

I have modified the /etc/hosts, including 127.0.0.1 acme.dev

I have modified docker-compose.yml file, so the service laravel.test is acme.dev

I have modified .env file so it has APP_URL=

It does not work.

I am struggling with something so simple...

I have a new laravel app with sail. Visiting laravel.test works.

Trying to modify this domain to something like acme.dev is giving me a headache.

I have modified the /etc/hosts, including 127.0.0.1 acme.dev

I have modified docker-compose.yml file, so the service laravel.test is acme.dev

I have modified .env file so it has APP_URL=http://acme.dev

It does not work.

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Found the reason: the TLD dev requires https. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dev

The only change that was actually required was the /etc/hosts.

The .env file should modified, although is not required for just opening the site:

APP_URL should point to the domain you want, for routing and links.
APP_SERVICE should be modified if you also want to modify the service name laravel.test in docker-compose.yml to something else.