I started looking at local tunnel options using https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/ which is free, but it appears to currently be broken

Code at
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/cli/-/commit/67ca722dfbfa4be80be524044d7a4c05014f53d3

I don't like ngrok because of the requirement to signup, so still think a tool for this might be the best perhaps...

I just looked at a one off hack solution to try and make this work for @noarave using the follwing

docker exec -it mwcli-mwdd-default_mediawiki-web_1 bash


curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.1/install.sh | bash
export NVM_DIR="/var/www/html/w/cache/docker/nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

nvm install 16

npm install -g localtunnel
lt --port 8080

This basically works but you get to the point where either

1. You need to force unknown wikis to be "default", but mediawiki then redirects you to the *.localhost domain
2. You need to install a wiki using the prefix given by localtunnel, such as fruity-insects-rule-95-126-122-113.loca.lt, however in update.php the -s get read as DB name prefixes or something? and mediawiki doesnt successfulyl install

SO this would need some work to work, but the good news is localtunnel seems to work now.
It also could make more sense

Anyway, more work is needed here...

I tried the config snippet that is linked in the description, and it doesn't work for me. Also, it is confusing to me. The prose says "Whatever URL is shown to you needs to be set in your LocalSettings.php.", but it doesn't include what it needs to be set to. Also, the code snippet provided does not include any <paste ngrok url here> or similar.

If / when I implement this
Of if someone else wants to, I'd probably go for https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/#cloudflare-tunnel-create-cloudflare-tunnel at this stage.

I would implement a generic cloudflare command that includes adding the tunneling option, then you could simply pass in the local dev env port (or anything else you want to proxy)