Share Your Local Server with Ngrok

Steps 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

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

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

   cp ngrok /usr/local/bin

6. Connect your account

   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

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

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