What is a local test environment?

Local test environment is a an environment where you can test your locally hosted website or your local files. This is done so that you can deliver a perfect project by removing all bugs before it goes live.

How can I test if a website is hosted locally?

You can test your locally hosted pages and privately hosted pages at LambdaTest Selenium Test Automation Platform using LambdaTest tunnel app. The LambdaTest tunnel allows you to connect your local system with LambdaTest servers via SSH based integration tunnel.

Why you need a local Testing environment?

It will mimic your website and act as real thing. Thus allowing you to test changes to your website without affecting the actual site. This can be useful for testing sites and web apps offline to remove compatibility issues before going live.

How do I enable local testing on cloud?

You can enable a secure way of local testing through our tunnel app, navigate to the top right corner of your dashboard, head to configure tunnel & click on the download link.

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Testing Your Websites And Apps On Internal Servers

With Lambda Tunnel, you can test website on localhost. Your local development/staging environments which are hosted on localhost can be tested on our tunnel. Test files written in plain HTML, CSS, PHP, Python and similar languages can be tested through our Secure Shell gateway.

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Testing Your Local Machine Files Through Secure Tunnel

Use LambdaTest Underpass, a secure desktop application that enables you to test your locally hosted or privately hosted websites or webapps on 3000+ browsers for both mobile & desktop, without executing any command from your terminal. Establish an SSH(Secure Shell) Tunnel between your OS & our cloud servers with Underpass GUI.
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Use npm Plugin for Connecting To LambdaTest Tunnel

A npm plugin to test your locally or private hosted website. All you need to do is to run this command: npm i @lambdatest/node-tunnel, in your command line and our npm plugin will be installed. With our npm you can easily connect with the help of your command line.

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GitHub Actions For Testing Locally Through LambdaTest Tunnel

A joy for GitHub community as now you can leverage GitHub action for LambdaTest Tunnel this will help you to test locally hosted web pages with ease. No need to worry as it will automatically take care of setting up the binary file & executing Selenium automation tests using the LambdaTest Tunnel once the GitHub action is triggered.

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Test your local files and folders on android and iOS browsers seamlessly. Perform local testing on various browsers at unmatched speeds through LambdaTest. Deliver stable, high-quality builds on your local environments.

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Local Testing Through Our Automated Screenshots Feature

If you want to test your local or staged website for visual deviations across various combinations, you can very easily do so by LambdaTest Automated Screenshots feature. By connecting LambdaTest Tunnel and taking screenshots, you can test your localhost page across 3000+ different combinations of browsers and devices!

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Automation Test In Local Environments

Now you can run your automation scripts across various android and iOS mobile devices & browsers. You can test through our emulators, simulators & real devices. Local Testing through LambdaTest will drastically speed up your goto market. Develop, test, and deliver faster every time with LambdaTest.

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