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Fale1994
Fale1994

Reputation: 77

Binding web address to localhost

I'm trying to implement a card payment provider to my web shop, but it only accepts a real URLs as success, error and cancel callbacks. For example, the success callback should be https://www.mywebshop.com/Checkout/PaymentSuccessful

As I want to test the mentioned functionality locally, I need to set the payment success callback to https://localhost:44328/Checkout/PaymentSuccessful, but the card payment provider don't accept it (it redirects to error callback instantly).

So, I guess I should add following rows to my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 mywebshop.com
127.0.0.1 www.mywebshop.com

Unfortunately, that didn't work - the local app is running but when I request mywebshop.com, I got messages below (I also tried with https/http/www)

This site can’t be reached

mywebshop.com refused to connect.

When I add a port, like https://mywebshop.com:44328/, I got error:

Bad Request - Invalid Hostname

HTTP Error 400. The request hostname is invalid.

If I add following binding to my applicationhost.config, nothing changes.

<binding protocol="https" bindingInformation="*:44328:mywebshop.com" />
<binding protocol="https" bindingInformation="*:44328:www.mywebshop.com" />

I also tried adding URL reservations with netsh, but it was unsuccessful.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 636

Answers (1)

Shah
Shah

Reputation: 1399

You can use Ngrok for your testing. Ngrok exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels. Please check how it works page here and its documentation here. Their free plan is sufficient for testing.

So download ngrok and run the ngrok.exe. Run below command which will give you public url - something like http://4a950b92.ngrok.io/ which will point to your local site. Hopefully that will solve your problem.

ngrok http -host-header=localhost 8080

Upvotes: 0

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