Problem 😱
You would like to expose securly 🔓 your local server on the web?
Default route for this would be to:
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configure https
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configure your router
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etc.
Solution 🤓
🎉 🎉 🎉 ngrok 🎉 🎉 🎉
Secure tunnels to localhost
Install - link
or on osx:
brew cask install ngrok
Usage:
ngrok http 8000
ngrok by @inconshreveable (Ctrl+C to quit)
Session Status online
Version 2.2.8
Region United States (us)
Web Interface http://127.0.0.1:4040
Forwarding http://11e22256.ngrok.io -> localhost:8000
Forwarding https://11e22256.ngrok.io -> localhost:8000
Connections ttl opn rt1 rt5 p50 p90
0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
You can now enter your https or http external url and hit your own server. 🎉
Protips:
ngrok comes with dashboard
open http://localhost:4040
reply requests
enable basic auth
ngrok http 8000 -auth "user:password"
you will need to have account for this feature visit https://dashboard.ngrok.com/auth
file based config
nano ~/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml
tunnels:
service:
proto: http
addr: 8000
it will start service:
ngrok start service
