How to expose my localhost to the WWW? (port forwarding?)

apache networking localhost portforwarding
Andy Hin picture Andy Hin · Jan 17, 2011 · Viewed 23.2k times · Source

I am running Apache/php on my localhost and would like to be able to make this publicly accessible from the internet.

I think this is achieved by port forwarding? Can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer

IGRACH picture IGRACH · Feb 18, 2015

Well sir you should try ngrok it is free and works with everything that I throw at him (node servers, xampp etc.)

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