Expose local server to the internet

If you want to expose your local server to the internet in a safe way, for example to test your under construction website on different devices, operating systems, browsers, you can use ngrok. It exposes your local project or server as a publically open web address. You can even choose to SSL enable it.

Here's what you got to do:

1. Donwload ngrok at https://ngrok.com.
2. Unzip it to your preferred location, probably a location known to PATH, so it's executable. In my case it's installed at /usr/local/bin/ngrok.
3. Run the command: ngrok http local_vhost_name:80

This will expose your project which is locally accessible via http://local_vhost_name as a publically reachable web address, something like: http(s)://d123abcd.ngrok.io.
From any device having access to internet, you can reach your local website now.

To view a full report of the details of every request made to your website, you can visit http://localhost:4040.
 

So from now on, no reason for not testing your project on all the things!