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When developing locally, message platforms require access to the Xip server running on your machine in order to transmit user messages.
Here are some options you can use:

ngrok

  1. 1.
    Download ngrok​
  2. 2.
    Start your Xip server as detailed in Booting Up.
  3. 3.
    Open up an ngrok tunnel to your Xip server and port (default 5000) like this: ngrok http 5000. ngrok will output a unique ngrok local tunnel URL to your machine.
When you provide your local ngrok URL to a messaging service, you will have to add /incoming/<service>. For example:
  • https://abc1234.ngrok.io/incoming/facebook
  • https://abc1234.ngrok.io/incoming/twilio
More details on service specific settings can be found on the GitHub page for each service gem.
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