php - Access to Laravel 5 app locally from an external device

Question

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!

Answer 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