SSL testing and/or remote access

[Thibaut Barrère]

Hello folks,

I had the need to connect to a SSL-only vagrant-based server from other machines on the network (eg: iPhone).  Here's some feedback in case it's helpful to others (given that most new apps are fully ssl these days)!

Maybe that's worth adding to the Vagrant docs, not sure? Let me know and I'll provide a patch.

without host only mode

In this mode you can setup some port forwarding for ssl:

config.vm.forward_port "https", 443, 8081

then you can access the app using the non standard port (here on a mac):

https://yourmachine.local:8081

One extra trick can remove the need to change the port (useful if you app send email or notifications with links to the vagrant app), here on mac os x:

sudo ipfw add 8081 forward 127.0.0.1,8081 ip from any to any 443 in

# later to remove

sudo sudo ipfw delete 8081

From then you should be able to access the app on the standard port:

https://yourmachine.local

host only mode

In this mode you'll be able to access the app from the host (but not from other machines on the network afaik). I tend to stick the IP in /etc/hosts then:

https://yourapp.dev

Voilà - hope this helps,

-- Thibaut

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Thibaut,

Also, in the next release of Vagrant (0.9.0), you can use bridged networking:

config.vm.network :bridged

This will cause your VM to appear as a physical device on your network, with its own IP that you can use to access HTTPS directly by any other device (such as an iPhone) on your network, so long as your networking permissions allow it.

Mitchell

 

-- Thibaut

[Thibaut Barrère]

Hi,

Also, in the next release of Vagrant (0.9.0), you can use bridged networking:

config.vm.network :bridged

This will cause your VM to appear as a physical device on your network, with its own IP that you can use to access HTTPS directly by any other device (such as an iPhone) on your network, so long as your networking permissions allow it.

I planned to test out 0.9.0 tomorrow so that's good to hear :)

Thanks for letting me know!

-- Thibaut