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How to share a site

Herd makes it easy to share your local sites with the world. This is great for testing your sites on different devices, receiving webhooks, or sharing them with clients and colleagues. Herd uses Expose to share your sites.

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Sharing sites via Expose

To share your site using Expose, you first need to create a free Expose account. Once you have obtained your authentication token, you can configure it in the “Expose” tab of the preferences window.

Or you can use the CLI:

expose token YOUR_TOKEN_HERE

Once you configured your authentication token, you can share your sites by running herd share or expose share in the site directory that you want to share.

cd ~/Herd/example-site

herd share

# Share a linked site:
herd share http://your-local-site.test

# You can share a secured site with:
herd share https://your-secured-local-site.test

You can specify a subdomain or server region for best performance and by adding parameters for them to the share command.

herd share https://example-site.test --subdomain=my-project-name --server=us-1

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Sharing with basic authentication

You may protect your share links with basic authentication by using the --basicAuth argument when sharing your site.

herd share https://example-site.test --basicAuth="user:password"

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Sharing sites via ngrok

If you want to use ngrok, install it according to their instructions. After that, you can share Herd sites via the terminal:

ngrok http --host-header=rewrite unsecured-site.test
ngrok http --host-header=rewrite secured-site.test:443