Using ngrok with Wordpress

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This article assumes you familar with moderate to advanced Wordpress configuration.

To make ngrok work properly with Wordpress installations you usually need to do two things:

1. You must ensure that Wordpress issues relative URLS. You can do so by installing the following plugin:

   • http://wordpress.org/plugins/relative-url/

2. You must ensure that Wordpress understands that it is meant to serve itself from your tunneled hostname. You can configure Wordpress to do that by modifying your `wp-config` to include the following lines:

   define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
   define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

3. You must also instruct ngrok to rewrite the host header, like so:

   ngrok http --host-header=rewrite https://your-site.dev