Local does a pretty good job of scrubbing private info from the logs and the errors it produces, however thereās always the possibility that something private can come through. Because these are public forums, always review the screenshots you are sharing to make sure there isnāt private info like passwords being displayed.
I read nothing on the website about the live links site tunnels closing down automatically. Is this from experience or is it documented somewhere? If the live link tunnels are being closed by the app, then why does the app show the link is still āONā? If the app is closing down the tunnel, it needs to turn off the button in the app that shows that the live link is still on, and not doing so is clearly a bug/oversight to users.
What is the correct process to 're-enable the site tunnel?" Do I turn off the live link, count to 10, then turn it on again? Iām not trying to be overly critical with this, but I understand connections being timed out, but the app should reflect that the tunnel is 'off/broken". Can this āfixā be made to the app to eliminate this bug/issue?
We donāt have any official documentation that drills down into these details, so thatās a great call out! Iāll make some notes to discuss this with our documentation team.
Live Links is not meant to be a permanent working URL but more of a quick and easy way to share a snapshot of the site with a client or a peer. Thatās why the Live Link will only work while your Local App is up and running, the site is Started, and Live Links is enabled. Once anything is closed down that connection is severed. As mentioned by Ben in that thread I linked to, even if you leave everything up, that tunnel will only have a life of about 24 hours.
Other things can factor into this working normally as well such as network speed, VPNs, security, antivirus, firewalls, etc
I still stand by my strong suggestion that if the tunnel is closed by the app, or even goes down, changing the state of the Live Link Enable is the beat process.
If the app disables the tunnel, itās trivial to have the state of the Live Link Enable button be changed at the sane time.
If the tunnel is closed by the app being turned off, the Live Link button should be OFF by default, and perhaps it is but I havenāt checked.
If the tunnel breaks for any reason, a simple crontab job could check the tunnel every 5-15min and if the tunnel is down, change the state of the Live Link button to OFF.
I know this may seem like overkill but this entire thread would have never happened if the button had this functionality.
The Live Link button was the first thing I checked and it was showing ENABLED, so I wasted time looking for other issues.
Even if there were simple text next to the button stating āLive link not working? Turn off, count to 5, then turn back on.ā, I would have fixed the broken tunnel issue and never contacted Support.
Iām really big on eliminating support calls for any reason as it adds costs to a business and ultimately to what a customer pays, as well as causes a great product to not shine as much as possible. Thatās why Iāve made these suggestions.
Iāve raised this to our Local dev and product team to explore options for improving this feature in the app. Thank you for your detailed feedback which gave us lots to consider about where to go with enhancements!