Hosty

Overview

/etc/hosts based tiny reverse proxy.

You may sometimes run a web application on http://localhost:3000 during development, or sometimes you may configure a local port forward on http://localhost:8080 with SSH to access web server behind firewalls.

Hosty loads your /etc/hosts and acts as reverse proxies to simplify the URLs. It allows you to manage mappings of local server name and port on /etc/hosts.

Installation

$ gem install hosty

Usage

Run:

sudo hosty

If you have lines below in your /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 internal.example.com internal  # :8080
127.0.0.1 rails  # :3000

Hosty accepts http(s)://internal.example.com/foo locally and proxies it into http(s)://internal.example.com:8080/foo for example. URL scheme will be kept intact.

Shortly,

• http(s)://internal.example.com → http(s)://internal.example.com:8080
• http(s)://internal → http(s)://internal:8080
• http(s)://rails → http(s)://rails:3000

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2016 Shintaro Kojima. Code released under the MIT license.