{"id":526,"date":"2018-03-06T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/?p=526"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:20:35","slug":"ngrok-share-your-localhost-services-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/ngrok-share-your-localhost-services-with-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"ngrok: Share your localhost services with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generate a <code>https:\/\/xxx.ngrok.com<\/code> URL for letting other people access your localhost services.<\/p>\n<p>ref:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/inconshreveable\/ngrok\">https:\/\/github.com\/inconshreveable\/ngrok<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/localtunnel\/localtunnel\">https:\/\/github.com\/localtunnel\/localtunnel<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Install<\/h2>\n<p>Download <code>ngrok<\/code> from <a href=\"https:\/\/ngrok.com\/download\">https:\/\/ngrok.com\/download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"line-numbers\"><code class=\"language-console\">$ unzip ngrok-stable-darwin-amd64.zip &amp;&amp; \nsudo mv ngrok \/usr\/local\/bin &amp;&amp; \nsudo chown vinta:admin \/usr\/local\/bin\/ngrok\n\n$ ngrok --version\nngrok version 2.3.35<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>Usage<\/h2>\n<p>Get your auth token in <a href=\"https:\/\/dashboard.ngrok.com\/auth\">https:\/\/dashboard.ngrok.com\/auth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"line-numbers\"><code class=\"language-console\">$ ngrok authtoken YOUR_TOKEN\n\n# open a session to local port 8000\n# you can also specify a custom subdomain for the tunnel\n$ ngrok http 8000\n$ ngrok http -subdomain=vinta-test-server -region=ap 8000\n$ open https:\/\/vinta-test-server.ap.ngrok.io\/\n\n# view ngrok sessions\n$ open http:\/\/localhost:4040\/<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>ref:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ngrok.com\/docs\">https:\/\/ngrok.com\/docs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generate a https:\/\/xxx.ngrok.com URL for letting other people access your localhost services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,29],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-devops","tag-cli-tool","tag-debug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinta.ws\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}