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

Question

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 1

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

Answer 2

It depends on the connection you have.

If your machine has a public IP address, it's on the Internet already. Then all you need is to allow connections to port 80, both on the local firewall and the home/corporate firewall.

If your machine is behind a set-top-box, or inside a corporate network, chances are that you're not on the Internet. In some instances, a router does NAT (Network Address Translation) between a local (non-routable) network and the Internet. In this particular case, you need to set up port forwarding on the set-top-box or router.