Access to Laravel 5 app locally from an external device

I've looked for a solution in the web, but I've not found a solution yet. I need to access to my Laravel 5 app from my iPhone, but I'm in develop, so I don't want to publish my app on a web server.

If you have a link to follow, that you assure it works, It's perfect for me.

Thank you!

Solution 1:

If you're not bound to using Apache or nginx for some special reason and this is for development purposes only, you could serve the application using the PHP built-in server and artisan. It's by far the easiest thing to setup, and will only require you to run one command in the Laravel application directory:

php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0

The default port it will be listening to will be 8000 to avoid any conflicts, so you can now access the application from your phone via the IP address of your computer:

http://192.168.1.101:8000

If you want to listen to another port (for example the default HTTP port of 80) you can pass that as a parameter, just make sure no other server is running on that port. So if you run this instead:

php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 80

You can now access your application with just the IP address:

http://192.168.1.101

Solution 2:

Its simple, first you have to run the server

php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0

Then you need to know what`s your IP address, run this command to get IP:

In windows:

ipconfig

In Linux:

hostname -I

For example, my IP is: 192.168.1.68

Once you get your IP, then you have to go to this address on your mobile. Like:

192.168.1.68:8000

And that's it.

Solution 3:

There are so many ways to do this.

1. Access your web via IP address from your iPhone, e.g. http://192.168.1.100/laravel
2. If your iPhone is jailbroken, you can edit iPhone's /etc/hosts file, the access your website via domain, e.g. laravel.com 192.168.1.100
3. Upload laravel app to web server and config it a test domain, e.g. dev.domain.com, or dev.domain.com:8080
4. If you can config your WiFi router, you can give your computer a "port forwarding" or set "DMZ"

5. Upload your website, and config "IP forbidden" roles, e.g. for Apache, edit your laravel's .htaccess file:

   Deny from all
   Allow from 180.159.251.175