LARAVEL serve on a ip but let laravel think its on a domain

Question

I'm running laravel serve on a local ip, and using a local ProxyPass server to reverse a public domain to that local ip.

The only problem is that when im using {{asset('...')}} laravel is placing the ip in front of the location of that asset. This will result in a 404 for that requested file.

Example: php artisan serve --host=192.168.178.2 --port=1234

My ProxyPass server passes all requests from example.com tot that local server.

This works, but on the places where I have used {{asset('...')}} in my code there is not 'example.com/css/app.css' but is '192.168.178.2/css/app.css'

Is there a way to serve on a IP, but laravel thinks its on a domain?

Answer 1

I found the solution, thanks to Mike!
Because of the old Stack Overflow post he advised me to visit. I found some new search terms for google. And then I found a GitHub post that just works with the latest Laravel 5.7.

Add the following code to app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

public function boot()
{
    parent::boot();

    /** @var \Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator $url */
    $url = $this->app['url'];
    // Force the application URL
    $url->forceRootUrl(config('app.url'));
}