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I have a wordpress installation of a website I'm developing on my mac (OSX 10.6). I can access it and make edits just fine through localhost/username/Sites/websitefolder/.

However, I need to make it accessible via the internet so I can work on it remotely and have other people look around, and I'm trying to do this by running the ngrok application (using this tutorial and the app's site itself - www.sitepoint.com/accessing-localhost-from-anywhere/).

I have ngrok running, but whenever I enter the address it gives me onto the browser, it returns with "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server" error.

Is there something I'm missing in order to make it accessible?

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These steps assume that all the files are in the same place as my computer in Mac OS X.

  1. cd /private/etc/apache2/

  2. nano httpd.conf

  3. Modify the file. Follow the video steps:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgVJnqQ_Xb8

    (I don't have time to put the video steps. I put it later).

  4. Restart the server

    sudo apachectl restart

  5. Go to

    ./ngrok 80

Copy YourAdrres24dfg33.ngrok.com

6 Open httpd-vhosts.conf

cd /private/etc/apache2/extra

nano httpd-vhosts.conf

Write: ServerAlias YourAdrres24dfg33.ngrok.com under DocumentRoot

ServerName localhost DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/ ServerAlias YourAdrres24dfg33.ngrok.com

You are set!

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  • Can you add the steps from the video to your answer, in case the video becomes unavailable in the future?
    – Heptite
    Commented Aug 3, 2014 at 7:42
  • Right now I don't have time. I will do it on Thursdays! :)
    – Qurdi Sanchez Moises
    Commented Aug 4, 2014 at 1:32

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