What is Localhost?

localhost who doesn't know that word, especially if you are a programmer, maybe for some people the word "localhost" still sounds foreign, quoted from wikipedia "localhost is a hostname that refers to the current device used to access it".

Thus Localhost is the term used to refer to your own computer when you use it as a virtual server. Keep in mind that localhost can only be accessed by people who are still connected to the same network as one connection with wifi.

Many applications that can run localserver especially windows users such as:

XAMPP is a computer software package whose naming system is taken from the acronym Apache, MySQL (formerly) / MariaDB (now), PHP, and Perl.

Laragon is a software for webserver stack management which includes Apache, PHP, and MySQL and runs on Windows OS.

This software has the same features as other software stacks such as XAMPP and WAMP, but Laragon has various additional features that are suitable for application development for medium to higher levels.

Then how users of different networks can access our localserver?

To do so we need a third party application that is ngrok.

Ngrok is a proxy server to create / open a private network through NAT or firewall to connect localhost to the internet with a secure tunnel

First of all, visit the web ngrok.com

After that, you can register first to use the application, after successfully registering you will be redirected to the dashboard website

To use the application, you can download it on the "Download for Windows" button.

If it has been downloaded, you can directly extract it using WinRAR or a similar application, the result will be an .exe format file, you can move the application to C:\Users\"Username"

"Username" <- the name is different every computer you can customize

now you can open command prompt and type

ngrok.exe config add-authtoken your_token

to get the token you can go back to the ngrok dashboard

it will look like this if you do it right, to activate it you only need to first turn on your localserver then type in the command prompt

ngrok.exe http 80

the command will online your localserver

then ngrok will create a forwarding link to your local server.

https://3154-180-244-160-22.ap.ngrok.io

the link above is forwarding from my localserver, in this case all the links will be different

keep in mind if you disable the command prompt then link forwarding will be useless.

Maybe it's a tutorial from me, thank for reading.