Exposing a local Trellis / Vagrant Environment for Webhook Testing

[richvida]

There are a few previous topics here which touch on this topic, yet the information seems outdated:

Exposing your Bedrock-Ansible dev setup with ngrok

I think this came up somewhere else on the boards, so I hope this is appropriate. I just wrote a short tutorial explaining how to integrate ansible-ngrok into their bedrock-ansible setup, which allows you to test webhooks as well as show your website to a client without setting up a staging server, just by exposing your development environment to the internet: Would love to know if this works for others or if you have any questions.

https://discourse.roots.io/t/sage-roots-vagrant-nginx-with-xip-io/2909

Does anyone have any current advice for how I can expose my local WordPress websites to the internet?

[mAAdhaTTah]

I haven’t played with it myself yet, but vagrant share seems promising.

[silumesii]

Hello, @richvida! I’m looking for a current solution to this issue as well. Where you able to find a solution?

I’m experimenting with HTTP Sharing with Vagrant Share but don’t have it working quite yet.

[Doocey]

Has anyone successfully worked vagrant share from within a Trellis/Sage setup?
It gives me the green light saying that it has been deployed, eg:

Creating Vagrant Share session...
==> default: HTTP URL: http://304c8a70.ngrok.io

However, I get the following error: getsockopt: connection refused

May not be on Trellis/Sage’s side but interested to hear if anyone has a fluid, working ngrok-enabled setup.

[ben]

Bedrock-ansible and vagrant share problems

vagrant share also accepts --name as a parameter. Here is what you can do: Backup site’s database. For example this way: vagrant up vagrant ssh cd /srv/www/{sitename}/current wp db export db.sql Edit trellis/group_vars/development/wordpress_sites.yml, change site_hosts: value from {hostname}.dev to {hostname}.vagrantshare.com Execute vagrant reload --provision to set up nginx Execute vagrant share --http 80 --name {hostname} where default {sitename} is example.com and default {hostname} …