Explanation - as usual, my company works on a shared LAN which goes through a single internet connection.
To test some applications, we have to be able to receive postbacks (on our developer machines) through 3'rd party services.
The best way we found was to have an OpenVPN server running somewhere. Each developer connects to the VPN server and receives a private IP-address. All postbacks go to the VPN server and are then routed through nginx to the correct developer machine (on the private IP address).
VPN is a pain to setup and configure - can something like this be used instead ? The question really is - how does nginx forward requests to the correct developer machine.
It's a generic "expose my local HTTP server to the Internet" tool, designed to be really convenient and easy to set up (assuming you already have a local HTTP server). If I understand you correctly, it may be exactly what you are looking for.
It's FOSS so if you don't want to use the service (my startup!) you can roll your own. :-) But if you're looking for convenience, the service is probably hard to beat. Come chat on #pagekite on Freenode if you've got any questions!
Cool! We're actually doing a pilot program right now to try and better understand the needs of web developers who use PageKite, so be in touch if you'd like to be part of that.
Explanation - as usual, my company works on a shared LAN which goes through a single internet connection. To test some applications, we have to be able to receive postbacks (on our developer machines) through 3'rd party services. The best way we found was to have an OpenVPN server running somewhere. Each developer connects to the VPN server and receives a private IP-address. All postbacks go to the VPN server and are then routed through nginx to the correct developer machine (on the private IP address).
VPN is a pain to setup and configure - can something like this be used instead ? The question really is - how does nginx forward requests to the correct developer machine.