My setup:
- Homestead on Mac OSX with multiple sites configured
- I have one site setup using domfit.test as the local domain (auto mapped using hostsupdater)
My problem:
If I vagrant ssh
, and then share domfit.test
I get a random generated ngrok url as you'd expect (http://whatever.ngrok.io), however when I access this URL all my resources / routes are being prefixed with http://domfit.test/
(http://domfit.test/login for instance)
I've tried the following:
- Setting APP_URL as the ngrok URL
php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
{{ url('login') }}
{{ route('login') }}
My understanding is that url()
should return the actual URL that the browser requested (rather than using APP_URL
) but it always returns domfit.test
.
If I rename my site in Homestead.yaml
(for example to newdomfit.test
) and re-provision then this is the domain that url()
and route()
uses, regardless of my APP_URL
. So the Homestead.yaml
seems to be forcing that domain. Which begs the question - how are you meant to actually use the share functionality?
I'm new to Laravel so I am not sure if all of this is expected behavior and I am misunderstanding something?
I just want my links and resources in templates to work for local (domfit.test
), shared (ngrok
) and eventually production with the same piece of code. My worry is I will have to change all of my route()
or url()
references when I attempt to put this website live.
EDIT BELOW
OK I've just tried again. Changed APP_URL
for ngrok
:
Searched my entire codebase for domfit.test
, and only some random session files seem to have references:
code/domfit/storage/framework/sessions/
APP_NAME=DomFit
APP_VERSION=0.01
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=XXXX
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=http://04b7beec.ngrok.io
Then in my Controller I have it doing this for some simple debugging:
echo(url('/login'));
echo(route('login'));
echo($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
echo($_SERVER['HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_HOST']);
If I use the ngrok
URL the output I get is:
http://domfit.test/login
http://domfit.test/login
domfit.test
04b7beec.ngrok.io
I don't understand how $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
is returning the wrong url?
It looks like it could be related to this: https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/342
ANOTHER EDIT
It looks like it has to do with Homestead's share
command:
function share() {
if [[ "$1" ]]
then
ngrok http ${@:2} -host-header="$1" 80
else
echo "Error: missing required parameters."
echo "Usage: "
echo " share domain"
echo "Invocation with extra params passed directly to ngrok"
echo " share domain -region=eu -subdomain=test1234"
fi
}
Which passes the option -host-header
to ngrok
which according to their documentation:
Some application servers like WAMP, MAMP and pow use the Host header for determining which development site to display. For this reason, ngrok can rewrite your requests with a modified Host header. Use the -host-header switch to rewrite incoming HTTP requests.
If I use ngrok
without it, then the website that gets displayed is a different one (because I have multiple sites configured in Homestead) - so I'm still not sure how to get around this. For the time being I could disable the other sites as I'm not actively developing those.