Public URLs for local projects

[cs16lover]

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature request

SUMMARY

It would be nice to have public URLs for the projects that is accessible from internet and available on demand.

Goal

Sometimes we need to show the progress on the project.
There are some commercial with free tier and open source tools that you can publish your localhost to internet.
Here are some examples:
https://ngrok.com/ (Most popular one)
https://localtunnel.github.io/www/
https://pagekite.net/
https://serveo.net/
https://portmap.io/
https://github.com/fatedier/frp
https://github.com/mmatczuk/go-http-tunnel

[cytopia]

It should actually be possible right away to expose your vhosts via ngrok to the internet.

1. pick a specific subdomain for ngrok: https://ngrok.com/docs#subdomain
2. add an additional server alias/server name to vhost-gen config: https://devilbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vhost-gen/example-add-subdomains.html with the subdomain you have picked for the ngrok configuration
3. start ngrok

Example

1. Start ngrok with subdomain myoutside

ngrok http -subdomain=myoutside 80

2. Alter vhost-gen server name for Nginx (https://devilbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vhost-gen/example-add-subdomains.html#nginx)

vhost: |
  server {
      listen       __PORT____DEFAULT_VHOST__;
      server_name  __VHOST_NAME__;
      server_name  myoutside.__VHOST_NAME__;    # <--- THIS IS THE LINE TO ADD

      access_log   "__ACCESS_LOG__" combined;
      error_log    "__ERROR_LOG__" warn;

  __VHOST_DOCROOT__
  __VHOST_RPROXY__
  __PHP_FPM__
  __ALIASES__
  __DENIES__
  __SERVER_STATUS__
      # Custom directives
  __CUSTOM__
  }

3. Start the Devilbox

[cytopia]

@cs16lover did the above example work out for you?

[cytopia]

@cs16lover Ngrok and corresponding documentation will be available in a few hours. PR is here: #522