Chris, good tips! One more thing: you can also bind to 0.0.0.0 to bind to all addresses. Here's a link on how to set up a reverse SSH tunnel
http://www.marksanborn.net/howto/bypass-firewall-and-nat-with-reverse-ssh-tunnel/ You don't need a beefy computer for this. I have a cheapie Slicehost instance that I use for all sorts of general purpose number crunching where I need root, but I've done this before on a shared VPS like Site5.com with no problems. -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Chris Copeland <ch...@cope360.com> wrote: > You need a publicly accessible IP that Facebook's servers can hit to load > the contents of your canvas page. (127.0.0.1 is a special loopback address > that is only valid on your computer.) > > I suggest using a service like DynDNS to register a host name like > myapp.homeip.net and then use their tools to automatically update DNS > records with your current IP as it changes (assuming you don't have a > static, public IP for your dev machine). Then update your Facebook app > settings to point to this host name. > > If you are behind a firewall/NAT you will need to make a hole in that > and/or configure port forwarding. > > When you start your local server you will need to bind it to your LAN > address instead of loopback. Eg. "-a 192.168.1.1" > > I have also found it useful to create two separate Facebook apps. One for > testing where it points to your dev machine and one for production that > points to Google. > > -Chris > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:09 AM, nacho <vela.igna...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is more a facebook apps question, but i would like if some gae >> developers have experience doing this. >> >> I need to develop a Facebook app, and i want to do my back in gae and >> my front in gwt. Easy task. >> >> My question is this: how can i locally test my fb app? >> >> My app must run on Facebook app's canvas (ie: iframe). So i created a >> new app, put a app_id and in the canvas url the following: >> http://127.0.0.1/MyApp.html >> >> But when i go to apps.facebook.com/myapp i get a blank page. I think >> that i can't test locally, so i have to deploy to appengine and put my >> appengine url in the facebook canvas url. But every deploy takes me >> 4 / 8 minutes :( >> >> Is there any way to locally test my fb app using gae? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
