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Access localhost from the internet using ngrok

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In topic i will help you to expose/access localhost to internet, I have a webserver running in localhost and  want to access local webserver from the internet. for this task a service like ngrok will help us to expose local server to internet. 

Prerequisites 

1 - Running Web Server on local machine

2 - Internet Access

3 - Ngrok package

 

Official Website of ngrok

https://ngrok.com 

Registration 

Open above link in any browser to start registering a account in ngrok, its free of cost also it have a paid service.

Once finished the sign up, we will receive a confirmation mail to verify account.

Ngrok setup and Installation 

1 - We can download the ngrok package on that maching where we are using local webserver and want to expose through the internet  

Here, we have a linux box and we will download the package in linux, below is direct link

https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip

Download package

wget https://bin.equinox.io/c/4VmDzA7iaHb/ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip

Unzip package and move 

unzip ngrok-stable-linux-amd64.zip

mv ngrok /usr/bin/

Connect Account

To grant access will add your authtoken to the default ngrok.yml configuration file. 

ngrok authtoken 1uA0j9ernQNRjjCcTBjwiX4ZImc_7wCRK5kfvXuCGkNSPijUm

Run ngrok

ngrok help

To start a HTTP tunnel forwarding to your local port 80

ngrok http 80

Note: In the above command my webserver is running on port 80, if you your http server running on different port, execute ngrok command with your port

We successfully expose the out localhost 80 port ngrok.io, for testing we will copy the forwarding url and open in the browser.

https://bdf094d13115.ngrok.io

Note: Note: free ngrok accounts receive a random URL each time a tunnel is started.

Thanks you !!

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