This tutorial explains how to get URL for website locally hosted on MAC. To do this, here I will talk about an app for macOS called, Emporter. This app allows you to publish local website to web directly from your PC and gives you its URL. After that, you can give that URL to anyone you like. You can control the publishing parameters right from the menu bar. Also, when you make some changes in the website files, it will help you refresh the served website without any interruption. And you can anytime unpublish the websites that you published earlier.
Emporter is the tool for web developers that you can use to publish locally available websites. This is good option for your websites and you will have full control of it. You just have to specify the folder where the website files are and then it will help you host it. It generates a link for your website that you can share with anyone. The websites you publish with this app can be opened on any platform without any problem. Also, if you want to password protect them then you can do that.
How to Get URL for Website Locally Hosted on Mac?
Emporter is a very simple MAC app that you can use. Just install it from MAC app store and then open it up. Its icon will appear in the menubar and you can get started with this app. Specify the folder where the website’s files are.
Now, simply move forward and then it will ask you to specify the a custom name for your websites. You can specify any name you want and then simply publish your websites.
After your website appears in the list, you can right-click on it to copy its URL. After that, you can just share that with others and let them browse the website you have created. And not just one but you can publish multiple websites right from the menu bar of MAC as well.
Above, you can see how this simple app works in macOS. You just have to specify a website folder and then let it do the rest. After when then website is being served, you can disable the publishing if you want to.
Final thoughts
Emporter is simple and useful app for web developer to quickly publish a local website from menu bar. If you often have to test websites by publishing them then you will like this tool. Also, this can come in handy when you don’t have any free server to host your websites. You can rely on this tool and even server multiple websites right from your PC.
