Access my latops XAMPP directories from smartphone without a router

Question

I'm working on a website whose main purpose is to be accessed from mobile phones. On my laptop I've installed XAMPP and work with it for development. If I want to check one of the websites from my Android Smartphone, so it connects through my home or work wireless network, which gave my laptop an internal IP. I do not always have that network though, so my smartphone would need to find my laptop without that. Do I need to turn my laptop into an access point, so my smartphone can find and connect over a SSID or is there a different way?

Answer 1

• You can use an application like localtunnel to tunnel your laptop's webserver over the Internet.
• You can connect your laptop and smartphone to the same network: by USB/Bluetooth/Wifi tethering, or by a shared external network.