fix: change all occurrences of hard-coded ip address '127.0.0.1' to 'localhost'

Also refactored to make this a constant defined in a single file where it is imported for all other
uses.

fixes #1253

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/api/apiBase.js b/src/api/apiBase.js
index 3278dc454..db974c96f 100644
--- a/src/api/apiBase.js
+++ b/src/api/apiBase.js
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
 import {
   DEV_API_FRANZ_WEBSITE,
   LIVE_FRANZ_API,
+  LOCAL_HOSTNAME,
   LOCAL_SERVER,
   SERVER_NOT_LOADED,
 } from '../config';
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ const apiBase = (withVersion = true) => {
   }
   if (window.ferdi.stores.settings.all.app.server === LOCAL_SERVER) {
     // Use URL for local server
-    url = `http://127.0.0.1:${window.ferdi.stores.requests.localServerPort}`;
+    url = `http://${LOCAL_HOSTNAME}:${window.ferdi.stores.requests.localServerPort}`;
   } else {
     // Load URL from store
     url = window.ferdi.stores.settings.all.app.server;