Setting up ngrok an homestad

Question

I am trying to setup ngrok on my homestead, but it is not opening my project. I have run ngrok http 80 and copied the address in forwarding part of the output to my Homestead.yaml file to map it to my project, and ran vagrant provision after that:

Forwarding                    http://92832de0.ngrok.io -> localhost:80
Forwarding                    https://92832de0.ngrok.io -> localhost:80

But when I open the http://92832de0.ngrok.io in the browser it opens up ngrok page "It works" and not my project.

When I have changed the port to ngrok http 8000 then I get Laravel error message:

Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

Answer 1

This is how It worked for me:

1) I have downloaded the ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) on my Windows host machine and executed ngrok.exe. It has opened a command line interface for me

2) I typed the following

ngrok.exe http 192.168.10.10 -host-header=homestead.test

And it gave me the link of where to go:

Forwarding http://123456.ngrok.io -> http://192.168.10.10:80

Forwarding https://123456.ngrok.io -> http://192.168.10.10:80

I just went there ans saw my local environment Laravel Project.

Answer 2

You can add a function like this to your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile script on the host machine:

rock(){
  ngrok http 192.168.10.10:80 -host-header=$1
}

After that you can use it to proxify any site on your Homestead machine like this:

rock your-site.app:8000

Answer 3

You can use any of your application which is in homestead. For that, you need to run the below command by replacing 'your-site.app:8000'

ngrok http -host-header=rewrite your-site.app:8000

Before that, you need to register into ngrok and install ngrok then use the authtoken that given in your account.

For more details, refer this https://ngrok.com/docs