Using local MAMP server causes remote URL to redirect to a new port = fail

[progrium]

Using local MAMP server causes remote URL to redirect to a new port = fail

[progrium]

I have this problem in situations where it redirects as well. There isn't a good solution I can think off, especially when it wants to redirect to another port. You'll have to figure out how to work around it, or help me come up with something viable for localtunnel (listening on all ports is not viable).

[jayfresh]

How about listening on some of the more common ports? 8888, 8000, 3000, 8080?

[progrium]

That might work. I wish we could come up with something better though.

[nirvdrum]

My head is a bit foggy at the moment, but is this the same problem I just fixed and was merged into master?

[progrium]

I think it is. jayfresh, you want to try with the latest version?

[jayfresh]

Unfortunately, I can't at the moment because of #3

[kevinburke]

I ran into this problem today trying to show my friends a new Wordpress theme. I worked around it by disabling Web Sharing, setting the MAMP port to 80 and then changing the site URL in Wordpress to be http://localhost instead of http://localhost:8888. While the site URL was hardcoded in my local Wordpress as localhost:8888, my computer kept responding to requests for http://xxxx.localtunnel.com/$1 with a redirect to http://xxxx.localtunnel.com:8888/$1.

nirvdrum, I tested MAMP with and without your changeset and the issue was present in both cases. The version of localtunnel available through Rubygems doesn't include that changeset, I edited the source.

On a tangent, Wordpress doesn't do well with relative URL's (see some discussion here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-relative-urls), so calls like this:

<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>

will echo http://localhost/path/to/style.css onto the page, which will fail over localtunnel even when running on port 80. The other part that's tricky is this will continue to look OK on your machine and not on your friend's. I had to hardcode relative URL's to load external files.

[aboutaaron]

@kevinburke's method worked for me, though I'm curious, why doesn't localhost:8888 work? I tried exposing port 8888 with showoff.io (out of curiosity) and ran into the same issue. As a newbie dev, can someone explain this to me? Thanks!

[progrium]

I've decided this is out of the scope of localtunnel. If your app/server is unable to be configured for or work with dynamic domains/ports, then localtunnel will not be able to work for you.

[mLuby]

Thanks @kevinburke !