Local Testing for Desktop Browsers

Test your privately hosted desktop websites using Local Testing on Pcloudy.

Local Testing enables you to test desktop websites that are not publicly hosted or are behind a proxy, firewall, or VPN on Pcloudy Live Desktop browsers.

When Do You Need Local Testing?

You would need Local Testing to test the following types of desktop websites on Pcloudy Live:

Localhost or locally developed sites
Privately hosted websites
Internal sites hosted in secured internal environments
Staging or QA websites
Non-production or restricted-access sites
Websites behind a proxy, firewall, or accessible only through VPN

How to Enable Local Testing?

To use Local Testing, you need to install the Pcloudy Desktop Assistant.

For installation and setup instructions, refer to Set up Local Testing in the Pcloudy documentation.

Why Do You Need the Pcloudy Desktop Assistant?

Pcloudy's real desktop browsers can access publicly hosted websites directly. However, to test websites that are not publicly accessible, the Pcloudy infrastructure requires a secure network tunnel to reach the private environment where your website is hosted.

The Local Testing feature in Pcloudy Live creates this secure network tunnel between your internal network and the Pcloudy browser cloud. This allows Pcloudy's real desktop browsers to access any non-public site hosted in your local, staging, or internal environments.

To create this secure tunnel, the Pcloudy Desktop Assistant must be installed on the machine that has access to the private or restricted website.

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