Serve laravel dev on local or public IP

Question

I had this working a while ago but it stopped for some reason.

What I want is to access the dev serve on LAN or public IP.

I could do it by serving php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0.

ifconfig sais inet 192.168.0.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255

I would port forward 192.168.0.150 on port 8000 and voila, I could connect on my phone from http://192.168.0.150:8000 or the publicIP:8000. Now none work.

If I try http://192.168.0.150:8000 on the PC that I serve, it works, but on my phone connected to the WiFi it sais Could not connect to the server. NSURLErrorDomain

What changes I did in the past days was to remove apache2 and install nginx, but I don't think it had anything to do with artisan.

What do you mean exactly? Have not changed anything and the firewall sais disabled `sudo ufw status Status: inactive` — alex, May 28 '23 at 14:43
Are you sure your local IP did not change? This has nothing to do with Laravel — matiaslauriti, May 28 '23 at 20:21
@matiaslauriti the output of ifconfig is in the question, that's the ip — alex, May 28 '23 at 21:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 28 '23 at 17:33

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If you can load your application directly (on localhost) with your LAN IP, then this seems not to be a Laravel issue.

Instead, check your firewall config. Make sure the port 8000 is opened on the local firewall for inbound traffic.

And it is highly not recommended to open a port in your router to access the application to the WAN / internet.

answered May 28 '23 at 17:33

Bernhard Kraemer

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Firewall looks disabled: sudo ufw status Status: inactive – alex May 28 '23 at 21:06
Any firewalls in your network that are possibly separating your mobile phone's network from the one of your development machine? – Bernhard Kraemer May 29 '23 at 11:33
No, I have a router and that's it, it worked before and I have not made any changes to it, so it must be from the PC. – alex May 29 '23 at 13:04
If you have another PC, you can try with a tool like nmap or "Advanced Port Scanner" to check if the port is indeed open. – Bernhard Kraemer May 30 '23 at 07:49

Serve laravel dev on local or public IP

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