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@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ Use this if you are a maintainer and will not be making code changes to CKAN or
 
 Copy the included `.env.example` and rename it to `.env`. Modify it depending on your own needs.
 
+Please note that when accessing CKAN directly (via a browser) ie: not going through NGINX you will need to make sure you have "ckan" set up
+to be an alias to localhost in the local hosts file. Either that or you will need to change the `.env` entry for CKAN_SITE_URL
+
 Using the default values on the `.env.example` file will get you a working CKAN instance. There is a sysadmin user created by default with the values defined in `CKAN_SYSADMIN_NAME` and `CKAN_SYSADMIN_PASSWORD`(`ckan_admin` and `test1234` by default). This should be obviously changed before running this setup as a public CKAN instance.
 
 To build the images: