Vagrant Share - Laravel Homestead, Ubuntu

Question

When I run vagrant share id-goes-here --http 80, the terminal gets stuck and it does not show me a URL:

==> homestead-7: Detecting network information for machine...
    homestead-7: Local machine address: 127.0.0.1
    homestead-7:  
    homestead-7: Note: With the local address (127.0.0.1), Vagrant Share can only
    homestead-7: share any ports you have forwarded. Assign an IP or address to your
    homestead-7: machine to expose all TCP ports. Consult the documentation
    homestead-7: for your provider ('virtualbox') for more information.
    homestead-7:  
    homestead-7: Local HTTP port: 80
    homestead-7: Local HTTPS port: disabled
    homestead-7: Port: 2222
    homestead-7: Port: 27017
    homestead-7: Port: 33060
    homestead-7: Port: 4040
    homestead-7: Port: 44300
    homestead-7: Port: 54320
    homestead-7: Port: 8000
    homestead-7: Port: 8025
==> homestead-7: Creating Vagrant Share session...

but when I go to https://dashboard.ngrok.com/status, a URL has been created for me. For example, http://eaeefc3d.ngrok.io

However, when I go to this URL, I get the default Apache welcome page.

I have also tried to ssh into homestead and run the command: serve eaeefc3d.ngrok.io ~/Code/myapp/public/ (as I read in Mike Miller's answer in this thread: vagrant share with laravel homestead) which gives me the output:

dos2unix: converting file /vagrant/scripts/serve-laravel.sh to Unix format... but I still get the Apache welcome page.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Thanks to @MikeMiller for pointing me in the right direction with his comment in this thread

Here is how I got ngrok to work:

1. ssh into homestead, ie. homestead up and homestead ssh
2. cd to the project directory, ie. cd Code/foodonsale/
3. Run ngrok with the -host-header set to the project name: ngrok http -host-header=rewrite myproject.test:80

4. You will get an output like the following: ngrok by @inconshreveable

   Session Status         online                                                           
   Session Expires        7 hours, 59 minutes                                               
   Update                 update available (version 2.3.18, Ctrl-U to update)              
   Version                2.2.8                                                            
   Region                 United States (us)                                               
   Web Interface          http://192.168.10.10:4040                                        
   Forwarding             http://0b7f6aa0.ngrok.io -> myproject.test:80                   
   Forwarding             https://0b7f6aa0.ngrok.io -> myproject.test:80   
   

5. Go to the URL designated by Web Interface. Here you can monitor the requests of your application.
6. Click on either the http or the https options to be redirected to the live public version of yout application.

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Useful links: - ngrok DOC