I have my app up in canvas but am at somewhat of a loss as to how I can test locally. I'm building my app on top of nodeJs to give it a try. I have a dev app that hasn't been deployed to heroku so I'm all set there, save some details to follow. I know my computers IP address but I'm not sure if that's the one I need. How do I find the correct IP. Something like: 0.0.0.124:5000 is the example that's given. To summarize what I need to know:
A) how to find the correct local IP
B) how and where to configure apache server (I have the code from heroku just need to know what file it goes into and where to find it).
C) How to export port 80
D) find out if I need access to my local dsl router admin area to set static ip or use dynamic one
Thanks in advance
From the Heroku documentation:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/facebook#1-creating-a-development-facebook-app
Do you need the IP address for a callback URL? If so, I recommend signing up with a dynamic DNS service so your home Internet connection has a consistent domain name even if your home IP address changes.
You'll also need to forward the appropriate port from your home router to your development machine.
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I have developed Yii2 CRUD application using models, controllers and views. It is used locally on PC. I wanted the users to use it online.
For eg. I have www.example.com and I wanted to make this yii2 CRUD application available on this site. What are the steps?
Your question is not very specific, therefore you haven't received an answer. I'm assuming you are asking about how to use your local PC as the server for an online site. Otherwise please clarify your question.
You will need to do the following steps:
Point the domain name to the public IP address behind which your local PC is sitting. You can find that by going here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/
In your router you need to set up port forwarding (NAT rules) for port 80 (or 443 if using https) to your computer's local IP address.
Depending on your Apache configuration (or whatever webserver you are using) you need to ensure it serves the right website. This is too broad a subject that I can give you any details here.
Note that you are now opening up your local computer to the Internet and hence you should be aware of the security implications it has.
How can i host a website through my computer using server softwares?
I tried to host a website through my own computer using apache tomcat server but it didnt work ( please briefly explain every point )
The main issue that you need to deal with is getting the clients to your computer.
Yes, it is possible and yes I have done it, albeit a while ago.
You need to see if you can browse to your computers website from another device on your network, this will ensure that apache is working. Try another computer/laptop/tablet/whatever to see if this site reachable by other computers using the IP Address and possibly port number. If you cannot get to the site, there are settings in apache to deny certain ip's, google it to get the exact steps for your version. If it works, move on to step 2.
You will need a static IP Address to ensure that all further steps stay working, google this if you are not sure how to do it
You need to have the external IP address of your router(whatsmyip.org) or use Dynamic DNS to route traffic from an address to your ip and there are services that allow this. I can recommend no-ip.com - This is all assuming that you have access to the router.
You would be required to set up port forwarding on your router. This will direct the internet traffic to your computer. You will need to get the exact instructions for your specific model of router.
Please be aware that you need to have proper firewalls and systems in place to prevent attacks. I am sure that you are just testing at this point though...
All the best!
I installed usbwebserver
everthing is running, I am trying to reach the root page index.php?
I read everything I possibly can and sorry but I still cant figure out how to reach my localhost
I reach my page with localhost:8080 and the page I want shows up but if I replace it with IP:8080 it does not.
I am trying to reach this page outside of my local network.
I'm sorry, I need to provide you a separate answer for your reformatted question for the "down the street" scenario. I can troubleshoot a few of the issues you're probably having.
ISP's don't typically allow residential internet connections to serve resources over port 8080, or 80. Even if you were to configure your computer as needed, if you're on a standard internet service provider they're probably blocking you in the middle even if you have punched holes all your local security in an attempt to serve assets over port 8080/80.
Assuming they don't allow that you're going to have to first configure your outbound middleware(php in your case) to listen to calls into your ip on a different port. ( You can do this in your C:\WAMP\ folder, in the "wampserver" configuration file. Here's a good walkthrough here: (http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,13744)
Now, you're going to have to drop any firewalls windows/ubuntu/macOS are providing on that port. (This is the part where you've rolled out the red carpet for hackers to get into your box(es) so be careful!) Here's a link for a short and sweet explanation on windows here: (http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/turn-off-windows-firewall-19396.html) Note that you can open individual ports, you don't have to drop your entire firewall.
Make sure you have opened up access to any folders/mySQLdb's/resources to outside requests as well (seriously, this is a REALLY bad idea from an #home server if you don't know what you're doing)
Then figure out the correct ip and the correct port and give it a go! If it still doesn't work you can download a program like [wireshark] (https://www.wireshark.org/download.html) or [fiddler] (http://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler/fiddler2) to debug your inbound/outbound traffic and see what the machine's seeing before your browser/server gives you any user visible information.
One thing to note, if you are an amateur web developer your homepage is called "index.html" not "home.html" "home.html" only works fine locally, but internet browser engines look by default, for "index.html"
Lastly, and I really can't stress this enough don't host through your personal ISP and serve files from your own machine. Hosting through Fatcow, or hostgator, or any of the other hosts is really honestly dirt cheap and they know far better than you or I do about security.
That said, I hope very much that you succeed in using my answer, or at the very least learning something from it. Happy Coding!
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go to a command line, type "ipconfig"
Hit Enter.
Under "Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
It should be the third line down, has your following:
IPV4 Address : 192.168.1.xxx where "xxx" is your ip
address.
USE "//" + "the ip address shown for (ipv4)" plus ":8080" and your default page
should show just fine.
For example, if your cmd "ipconfig" for this process reads: "192.168.1.12"
your total URL in your browser will be "//192.168.1.12:8080"
Note that I used 2 forward slashes prior to using an IP address on your
local network. That let's your computer know it's using your network, not
the actual internet. The slashes alone may solve your problem. Also note, if you're accessing a database through your webapp, you will also need to properly configure your db settings to allow access.
First find your outside ip adress not local ip. After that go into router panel and open to use from apache server. Anyone able to access that port now. You can connect outside your local website now. If you can't do that. Try again. This is the way to doing this.
EDIT: Ugh I forgot to put this on Server Fault...
I have an Azure VM that is hosting a web application.
The application will be accessible via the VM's IP address:
http://191.238.112.62
I want to be able to use query strings to redirect to completely different sites that are within the local IIS. For example:
http://191.238.112.62/?site=1
would redirect to
www.site1.com
The way I have structured IIS can be seen below:
Each site has an entry in the systems host file.
127.0.0.1 wwww.site1.com
127.0.0.1 wwww.site2.com
127.0.0.1 wwww.site3.com
There is likely a better way to achieve what I am going for here so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Here is how I would do it. Not sure why you want to use query strings for this as IIS is made to do that if you configure it properly.
In your DNS server register all your websites to point to that IP. This is for when you go live. For development the hosts file is a good solution.
When you create the websites add a Host header like below
Now try loading any website by their full name
http://www.site1.com
http://www.site2.com
http://www.site3.com
Here is more info about IIS host headers.
Again, when you go live make sure you have the DNS set up for all the websites to point to the IP address of your server.
Hope this helps.
Edit based on comment:
Right, here is how I solved this in the past.
You can do all this with the hosts file but it's less painful if you have a proper DNS server to resolve the names.
The basic idea is to use slightly different URLs for development on the local machine.
All devs would have site1.com point to the IP of the shared server and site1.com.local point to 127.0.0.1. So a hosts file on a developer machine would look something like:
191.238.112.62 www.site1.com
127.0.0.1 www.site1.com.local
On all development machines you need to make sure you have the .local host header for all sites.
On the shared server you just need to add the right host headers and no hosts file changes. It's actually a bad idea to change the server hosts file.
I have a development server (Java servlet container) running on my computer inside my private network (IP range 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255). This development server executes my integration testing environment. This testing environment has its own Facebook App ID. Having the server run in the 192.168.x.y range allows my colleagues to test the website, login to my local website with their Facebook accounts etc..
At https://developers.facebook.com -> in the Facebook Apps settings -> located under "Basic settings" -> in the "Website with Facebook Login" field, I have set http://192.168.2.106:8080, as this is the address-port combination that my development server binds to.
Due to DHCP, my computer now has a slightly different IP address, namely 192.168.2.109. Whenever I start up my server and then try to do anything Facebook-API related (e.g. Facebook Login), I get the following error message from Facebook
{
"error": {
"message": "Invalid redirect_uri: Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 191
}
}
Is there a way to have a Facebook App allow a "range of IP address websites with Facebook Login"? What other solutions can you suggest?
My colleagues shall be able to also start up the development server on their own machines, with their own private network addresses. Therefore, the same Facebook App ID shall work on different machines with different IP addresses and still be accessible to everybody inside the private network.
Notice that setting "Website with Facebook Login" to localhost makes the development server only available to the same machine it is running on. This unfortunately prevents colleagues from accessing this development server instance.
Update
Filed bug: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/606277079382609
If you could get away of using localhost, then there is a very simple way:
Make the facebook app redirect to http://lvh.me:3000/ (or whatever port your server is listening on localhost). A benevolent developer owns the lvh.me domain and had the DNS setup to point to localhost. I've tried this and that's what I used for development testing.
Similarly, you could do stuff like that and points a DNS record of a domain you own to a range of local ip. I am not familiar with DNS so I am not sure how to set it up or if it's possible.
If you're running on Windows you could try changing your hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
and add your IP to an imaginary domain (your colleagues should do it too) and put that domain in Facebook Settings panel.
I'm not sure about this so tell me if it works :)
As far as i know you cannot setup an IP range in your application setting, the redirect_uri is typically meant to handle urls with domain names, which is usually the case with with public websites.
The best way to avoid this problem is to make sure you local development server has always gets the same IP, which is generally a good practice if you are writing a server.
there are several ways to do it depending on the network setup, here are two option:
Setup your DHCP server to always assign the same IP to your dev server MAC address
Bend the rules a little bit and setup your computer to claim an unused IP address. DHCP servers typically assign IPs in order (will start from 192.168.1.1 and work up to 192.168.254.254) so have your computer claim an IP in the higher part of the range (Ping the IP first to make sure it's not being used)
Instead of using an IP address, use localhost.
So hxxp://192.168.1.20 would become hxxp://localhost
(replace xx with tt)
This resolves back to the local machine, whatever its IP address is. I am assuming that your development server is running on your PC, using WAMP or something similar. I draw this assumption because you state that it must run on any laptop in any network environment.
If you own a domain you could create a subdomain test.mydomain.com pointing to 192.168.2.109.
When your address should change again, you can change the entry accordingly.
There is no reason why a DNS entry could not point to a IP address from the 192.168 range. For someone outside your network it will not be of much use, because he can't access your IP address from the outside, but for your co-workers within the network it will work.
If a coworker wants to run the web app on his own PC, he can of course override this setting using his own hosts file.