From previous versions of the question, there is this: Browse website with ip address rather than localhost, which outlines pretty much what I’ve done so far…I’ve got the local IP working. Then I found ngrok, and apparently I don’t need to connect via the IP.
What I am trying to do is expose my website running on localhost to the internet. I found a tool that will do this: ngrok.
Running the website in visual studio, the website starts up on localhost/port#. I run the command “ngrok http port#” in the command line. Everything seems to start up fine. I generate a couple of URLs, and the ngrok inspection url (localhost:4040) works.
The only problem is that when I go to the generated URLs, I get an HTTP error 400: bad request invalid hostname. This is a different error than when I run “ngrok http wrongport#”, which is a host not found error…so I think something good is happening. I just can’t tell what…
Is there a step I am missing in exposing my site to the internet via the tunneling service? If there is, I can’t find it in the ngrok documentation.
