Tunnel a localhost subdirectory through ngrok?

http localhost wamp virtualhost ngrok
Pontiacks picture Pontiacks · May 3, 2015 · Viewed 19.3k times · Source

Objective: want to share a website preview using ngrok, which creates a tunnel from which my localhost can be seen with an url of something like mywebsite.ngrok.io

Problem: I use WAMP and my localhost folder looks something like this:

localhostdirectory
   |-- website1
   |-- website2
   |-- etc

To access a website I type to localhost/website1/ in the browser, I would like to tunnel only that URL, the possible solutions would be:

  1. Setting up a Virtual host, I would go through the hassle of manually setting up a virtual host, then I get something like website1.dev, and then I would pass it to ngrok as the host header in the HTTP request, like that:

    ngrok http -host-header=website1.dev 80

    I didn't understand what the host header is though, and why can't I pass a relative url like localhost/website1/, also what is the rewrite option?

  2. Change the folder directory of my localhost to the folder of the website, I would prefer not to do that.

Is there a better way to accomplish my objective in an easier way, maybe going through WAMP aliases?

Answer

Abdourahmane FALL picture Abdourahmane FALL · Aug 10, 2015

If you make do with Apache Vhost you just have to exec command

ngrok http -host-header=rewrite YOUR-LOCAL-DOMAIN:PORT

Dont forgot to edit host file for resolution @IP <-> YOUR-LOCAL-DOMAIN

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