Week 13: Research function of ngrok and XAMPP

 Date: 19/10/2020

Activity: Finding how to host the database on the local server and generate it to the internet

Objective: 

1. To get knowledge of how to connect the local server with free domain on the internet
2. To testing out the software will it work by using a database

Understandable:

1. XAMPP: It stands for cross-platform, Apache, MariaDB(MySQL) and PHP. It is a free, open-source and cross-platform tool to create a local server. It makes it easy for us to test the web-app locally.
2. Ngrok: It is a multiplatform tunnelling software, which is used to establish a connection by making a tunnel in between the local server and the public endpoint such as an internet.

Conclusion:

1. Ngrok will give a port 80 and specific IP address that we can open the database or file from the server in our browser.
2. With the URL that hosting it on the local server 'XAMPP' and generate a temporary URL with the help of 'ngrok' by establishing a pipeline in between your server and the person with whom the project is shared.