Share Your Local Server with Ngrok¶

Learn how to share your local server with Ngrok.

1. Sign up for Ngrok

2. [Optional] You can free claim 1 subdomain from Ngrok

3. Download ngrok packages based on your OS.

4. Unzip to install

   Bash

   tar -xvzf ngrok-v3-stable-linux-amd64.tgz
   

5. [Optional] Copy to /usr/local/bin

   Bash

   cp ngrok /usr/local/bin
   

6. Connect your account

   Bash

   ngrok config add-authtoken <auth-token>
   

   • The auth-token saved to configuration file: /home/<username>/.config/ngrok/ngrok.yml

7. Start a HTTP tunnel forwarding to your local port 80

   Bash

   ngrok http 80
   ngrok http --domain=<domain-name> 80
   

8. Go to your browser and type your domain name.