# mehserve

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A simple port-sharing proxy for development on multiple local domains, supports
websockets, SSL, and queuing requests whilst development server restarts.

## Features

- Quick (near instant) startup
- Built in DNS server to redirect *.meh, *.dev, *.test to 127.0.0.1 (requires
  additional configuration for your system to use this server)
- Proxies regular HTTP requests and websocket connections based on the `Host`
  HTTP header
- Easy to configure
- Subdomain configuration is updated on a per-request basis - no need to
  restart server
- supports [xip.io](http://xip.io/) domains
- SSL termination (using SNI to support multiple domains on one port)
- Self-signed SSL certificate generation and help installing
- `mehserve run --exponential-backoff` will automatically re-attempt requests
  when your development server restarts (e.g. due to file changes) saving
  you from receiving the error page in the intervening seconds (ALPHA)

## Status

I've been using this for a couple years now, it's been very smooth for me.
YMMV. This is NOT for production usage, it's only intended for use on your own
development machine!

## Getting Started

Mehserve itself should run on Linux and OS X, but to have .meh / .dev domains
resolve to localhost and to have it run on port 80 you need to do a little
additional configuration.

We've currently only instructed you how to do this on OS X and Ubuntu; pull
requests welcome.

### Installing

```bash
npm install -g mehserve
mehserve install
```

follow the instructions to set up port forwarding and DNS resolution.

### Running

To run the server:

`mehserve run`

We don't currently daemonize the server, pull requests to add this
functionality would be welcome. In the mean time we recommend you [set up
`pm2`](http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/) and then tell it to
run mehserve with:

`pm2 run /path/to/mehserve -- run --exponential-backoff && pm2 dump`

### Configuring subdomains

#### Port forwarding

To set up a subdomain, simply run

`mehserve add mysite 1337`

This'll tell mehserve to proxy all HTTP requests for `mysite.dev`, `mysite.meh`, `mysite.test`
and `mysite.*.*.*.*.xip.io` to `localhost:1337`

#### Static files

Alternatively, to serve static files:

`mehserve add staticsite /path/to/public`

This'll tell mehserve to serve static content from `/path/to/public/` to anyone
requesting `http://staticsite.dev/`

#### SSL certificates

If you want a local domain to be served with SSL you must generate a
certificate for it:

`mehserve ssl staticsite`

Then follow the instructions.

#### DNS resolution fails whilst offline

This is an issue with discoveryd (it also affects Pow - see
https://github.com/basecamp/pow/issues/471) - should be fixed by
updating to OS X 10.10.4

## TODO

Pull requests welcome!

- Tests
- Daemonize
- Scripts directory organzation
```
mehserve
└── extras
    ├── macos-launchd
    ├── supervisord
    ├── systemd
    └── systemv
```
- Homebrew (`node` formula dependency) [Homebrew CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Linux instructions