Single quotes VS. double quotes (Browser sync and XAMPP)

[abelAbel]

Issue details

Please provide issue details here. On the document page (https://www.browsersync.io/docs/command-line#start) it showed to use single quotes, but when I tried using a single quote on window command line ( >browser-sync start --proxy 'localhost:80' --files '*' ), I was getting error code 403, and the URL I got was "http://localhost:3000/%27localhost:80%27". When I changed to double quotes ( >browser-sync start --proxy "localhost:80" --files "*" ), it was working and I got the proper URL "http://localhost:3000/index.php". I just want to report on this, to save others some headaches. On the other hand single quote worked when I wasn't proxying, e.g. >browser-sync start --server --files='*.html' . Again I was to proxy an existing XAMPP server with browser-sync and tried following the browser-sync documentation which suggested to do this $ browser-sync start --proxy 'mylocal.dev' --serveStatic 'public' --files 'public'. Which in my case didn't work.

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Please specify which version of Browsersync, node and npm you're running

• Browsersync [ 2.18.13]
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Affected platforms

• [ ] linux
• [ X] windows
• [ ] OS X
• [ ] freebsd
• [ ] solaris
• [ ] other (please specify which)

Browsersync use-case

• [ ] API
• [ ] Gulp
• [ ] Grunt
• [X ] CLI

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for all other use-cases, (gulp, grunt etc), please show us exactly how you're using Browsersync

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[mikelagan]

Host OS: Ubuntu 18.04 Gulp: CLI version 2.0.1, Local version 4.0.0 Browsersync: 2.26.3

I had the same issue using Gulp and Browsersync with proxy statement and had to change the file strings from single to double quotes in order for the browser to reload after changing a root folder *.php files.

Gulpfile.js

var // Load Gulp apps gulp = require('gulp'), browserSync = require('browser-sync').create(), scss = require('gulp-sass'), sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'), postcss = require('gulp-postcss'), changed = require('gulp-changed'), autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer'),

//Files
scssFiles    = "src/scss/*.scss",
cssFiles     = "css/*.css",
phpFiles     = "*.php",
htmlFiles    = "*.html";

gulp.task('watch', gulp.series(function (done) {

browserSync.init({
    proxy: 'localhost/wordpress',
    //If these files change inject css or refresh as necessary
    files: [cssFiles,
            phpFiles,
            jsFiles,
            htmlFiles
            ],
});
gulp.watch(scssFiles,gulp.series('scss')); 
done();

}));

gulp.task('scss', function(done) { return gulp.src([scssFiles]) .pipe(sourcemaps.init()) .pipe(changed('css')) .pipe(scss().on('error', scss.logError)) .pipe(postcss([ autoprefixer() ])) //.pipe(cssnano()) .pipe(sourcemap //notify: false, //Don't show any notifications in the browser //open: false, //Don't open new browser windows.write('.')) .pipe(gulp.dest('css')); //.pipe(browserSync.stream()); //taken care of by BS Files option done(); });

gulp.task('runonce', function (done) { // One-off changes... gulp.src('node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.') .pipe(changed('css')) .pipe(gulp.dest('css')); gulp.src('node_modules/font-awesome/fonts/') .pipe(changed('fonts')) .pipe(gulp.dest('fonts')); gulp.src('node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.slim.min.') .pipe(changed('js')) .pipe(gulp.dest('js')); gulp.src('node_modules/popper.js/dist/umd/popper.min.') .pipe(changed('js')) .pipe(gulp.dest('js')); gulp.src('node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.*') .pipe(changed('js')) .pipe(gulp.dest('js')); done(); });

gulp.task('default', gulp.series( ['runonce','scss', 'watch']) , function (done) {
done(); });