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Howto test websites run in Vagrant on my development machine with my phone using Privoxy
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My development machine runs Ubuntu (14.04) and I'd like to test my webapplications which are developed in a Vagrant box with my phone. This is how I made this possible:

  1. Install Privoxy (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install privoxy)
  2. Check your local ip-address
  3. Change the listen address in Privoxy's config file (/etc/privoxy/config) to your local ip-address (usually starts with 192.168.x or 10.0.x)
  4. Run Privoxy (sudo service privoxy start)
  5. Check if the proxy works, by setting your browser on your development machine to use Privoxy as it's proxy. And then go to http://p.p and it should show your Privoxy running
  6. On your phone (I'm using Android 4) make sure to use the same network as your development machine and setup the wifi to use your development machine as a proxy (long press on the wifi AP name to access the connection settings). Use the listen adddress you've supplied Privoxy with
  7. Pro-tip: Don't forget to let your firewall allow connections to your proxy for now!!
  8. Browse to your local webapplication on your development machine, e.g. http://myproject.dev
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