Share your local server with Ngrok

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.