Is it possible to set localhost as a Stripe webhook URL?

Question

I am creating a payment gateway using Stripe.

I want to set my localhost url localhost/stripe/webhook.php as my webhook url. Is it possible to set a localho

Answer 1

You can use expose.sh to expose your server using a public HTTPS URL.

Install expose.sh

For Mac or Linux, go to Expose.sh and copy/paste the installation code shown into a terminal.

For Windows go to Expose.sh, download the binary and put it somewhere in your PATH.

Expose your api to the web

Start your API server. Then run expose where port is the port your API server is running on, like 80 or 8080.

Expose.sh will generate a random public expose.sh URL. You'll see output like

https://s3rh.expose.sh is forwarding to localhost:80
http://s3rh.expose.sh is forwarding to localhost:80

Then you can get Stripe to use the public HTTPS URL, which will forward to localhost. I've written a full guide here

Disclaimer: I built expose.sh