I have a react-app, I set up my app to run on a custom url using the HOST variable when starting the app, something like:
"scripts": {
"start": "HOST=my-local-website.com ..."
}
I need to access this url from a windows virtual machine to test it on IE11, before setting up the HOST variable I was able to access it simply from my IP address (192.168.X.XX:3000), having changed the HOST variable this doesn't work anymore.
Does anyone know how I can access it from a virtual machine?
Thank you in advance
I suggest to set environment variables in separate .env file like described in dicumentation.
In .env file set HOST=my-local-website.com to change host (it's unclear why official doc recommends prefixing all env variables with REACT_APP_)
Web site name my-local-website.com mapping to IP address of server (192.168.X.XX:3000 in your case) is done using DNS. This relate to networking and not to frameworks you use. So to be able to access your site by name you have to establish mapping between name of the site and IP address
I terms of DNS this mapping will look like
my-local-website.com A 192.168.X.XX
But for testing purpuses you can use simplified approach (I don't think that you have established DNS server in place). On Windows you can use hosts file which is located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc folder. File is named hosts. Open it with any text editor (like notepad) and add string
192.168.X.XX my-local-website.com
IP address goes first, name last. Dont include port number (:3000) as it not related to DNS. hosts file should be changed on you test (client) PC, not on the PC where your app run.
You may also modify hosts on PC where you app runs to check if host has been configured correctly.
To check that everything is correct you may use ping like this
ping my-local-website.com
IP address should be printed if you configured everything correctly.
If you run your app on Windows host there may be problem with firewall configuration. If your app open on the same PC where it is started but not on another PC, most probaly that firewall blocks traffic. It can be WIndows Firewall or antivirus software if you have any.
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"React-scripts", a series of scripts from create-react-app starter pack allows me to use "react-scripts-start" to initialize a server.
Everything works fine, the server turns on and I can access it on localhost:3000 or by using the IP:3000
The problem is when I use other devices from my house. I try to connect to the IP:3000 and it doesn't work. I'm getting "Server not found".
Is it a Windows access problem or am I supposed to set up the server?
I managed to solve my issue. For me, it was not in the firewall, not in the configuration files. Instead, it was the router.
Since I live in UK, I have Hub 3.0 from Virgin Media.
The solution is:
1) Navigate to Connected Devices and copy the IP address for your device. In my case it was xx.xx.0.16/24 so I copied "xx.xx.0.16"
2) Navigate to Advanced Settings > Security > Port Forwarding
3) Click on "Create new Rule". For Local IP will be your IP address, local start port & end port 3000; external start port & end port 3000; Protocol choose both; Enabled on
4) Apply changes
Now here is the trick. When I run the command
npm run start
I'm getting a message which says:
You ca now view your project in the browser:
Local: http://localhost:3000/
On Your Network: http://xx.xx.37.1:3000/
I can navigate to that IP address : 3000 on the hosting laptop however if I want to make other devices access it, I must use the IP address set up in the router which for me is xx.xx.0.16:3000
I own a domain for a website (let's just use "X.com"), which for now I'm hosting on my home computer. This domain name points to my dynamic dns (x.ddns.net) name in the web forwarding of the domain name registrar as I have a dynamic ip and I haven't yet found a better way to make sure that the IP is consistently updated.
I recently changed the ddns address (y.ddns.net) and now whenever I try to access my site either from accessing the main domain name (x.com), or via typing in the local lan ip (192.168.1.56) I keep getting forwarded back to my original ddns address (x.ddns.net) and the website won't load.
I've looked through all the settings I can find both locally, with the ddns provider and with the (x.com) registrar to try to pin point where the forward takes place but I'm totally stuck.
Host system is Ubuntu, everything is up-to-date, nothing in /etc/hosts file pointing to the old ddns.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Try DDNS on Cloudflare
Only problem is that you need to move your domain to cloudflare dns servers which is totally free to use.
I am working on an angular app using the angular cli to set things up. Running the ng serve command spawns a server at this address <my_ec2_host_name>:4200. When I try to access the page on the browser it doesn't work (connection timed out error). I believe this is because of security reasons so I added the following rule to my security groups for the ec2 instance:
Port 4200 should now be accessible but I still can't get the page to load. Can someone think of how to get this to work?
Start angular with below command.
ng serve --host=0.0.0.0 --disable-host-check
it will disable host check and allow to access with IP
You can set up the host option like this:
ng serve -host 0.0.0.0
The steps you are doing are correct for opening a port via Security Groups in the EC2 console. Make sure you are modifying the correct security group, and make sure that your changes have been saved.
Your container may have additional firewalls in place, so you will want to check the OS documentation. For Example, RHEL uses iptables as a further security measure: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Security_Guide/sect-Security_Guide-IPTables.html.
That looks correct. Are you sure that your server is running and listening for connections?
You should ssh to that server and verify that the page can be loaded locally. Eg:
curl http://<YOUR HOST IP ADDRESS>:4200
eg: curl http://54.164.10.123:4200
You should be careful to use the public ip address (eg: IPv4 Public IP when you're in the EC2 console). I've run into problems in the past where I've got a server listening on one IP address (often localhost) and not the public ip address.
Also maybe a problem: Is your host inside a VPC of some sort?
I have a local server running Reactjs on my Macbook. (newbie in React)
1) How could I change the http://localhost:4001 name to something else (e.g. http://www.test.com)
--> I'm using webpack-dev-server --port 4001
2) How could I allow up to 500 iOS/Android device to connect to this local server? (e.g do how to setup a router to broadcast this?)
--> Found this ReactJS-and-ngrok but not sure what's the concurrent users it's able to support.
3) How to allow the device to connect to a wifi without internet access?
First, see what IP is your Macbook in your local network. System Preferences->Network. Suppose your Macbook IP is 192.168.1.70 and your server is on 4001 port. Then you can start your webpack-dev-server with the following options: --output-public-path="http://192.168.1.70:4001/" --host="0.0.0.0" --public="192.168.1.70:4001". You can still access it via localhost name on Macbook, but on other devices use full IP + port number as address.
Can't say anything about setting domain... may be you can configure your router somehow? Sorry, newer had to face such a task
Using the windows host file located in
windows/system32/drivers/etc/host
Is it possible to respond a request from an application like when it is offline(not connected to the Internet)? Could you please give an example of this is done.
The hosts file only lists aliases for ip-addresses. For example:
192.168.0.1 foo bar foo.com bar.com
If that line is in the hosts file, then you can use the host-names foo, bar, foo.com and bar.com to reach the computer with ip-address 192.168.0.1.
If the computer, or the service you want to reach on that address, is not online, you can't reach it no matter what you have in your hosts file.
If you are willing to map your local development environment to a domain name, you can edit the domain name in hosts file and map it to 127.0.0.1, which is the loopback address.
That way, any requests done to that particular domain will fallback to your local machine.
You can also assign different LAN/WAN IP addresses.
When your development phase is done, you can remove the entry.
I would not recommend doing so, stick with the localhost and just make use of that to test virtualhosts setup or some sort of domain based configurations.
If there is anything else I can answer, please don't hesitate to post further comments on my answer.
If you mean to respond to HTTP requests then you need a Web Server configured to respond to any host (or that specific host name) on port 80. If you are not using it for anything else IIS can do this1 – configure it to return 404 (not found) or some other relatively neutral fail response.
1 If IIS is already being used then things get much harder, later versions of IIS are more flexible either with a combination of using HTTP.SYS to allow other applications to respond to certain URLs or using different Web Sites in IIS (until Windows 7, or maybe Vista, only available on Server editions of Windows).