Question

I am creating an app on my work’s server, which is using SVN. It’s a real pain in the ass to commit & deploy every time I want to test something, instead of just being able to use my localhost environment.

Which I am sure is a possibility, I just can’t find it. That leading to my question:

How do I set up my app so I can test on my localhost, and still use Facebook Social Graph/OAuth?

Answer 1

You can set up a server alias in your apache config like this:

# local host
ServerName your-site.localhost

# alias
ServerAlias your-site.com

Then add the host to your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 your-site.com

This will route all your requests to your-site.com to localhost. I use this method for developing Facebook apps, pages and external sites that need to be on the auth domain I’ve set up in Facebook.