ngrok for tunneling

You have a login for https://dashboard.ngrok.com (it should be in 1password)

If you haven't installed it yet on your Mac:

1. Download the exec file from here: https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started

2. Place that file in my ~/code directory on my Mac

3. Run the command found on this page https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started to connect my ngrok authtoken

Run bc.ngrok.io

While working on ZipMessage, I upgraded ngrok so that I could use one standard domain each time. I set up bc.ngrok.io for this purpose.

First, ensure the ngrok.yml (<-- this resides in ~/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml) contains the following, which assumes that the project I'm currently working on will have its localhost pointing to port 5000 which ZipMessage does.

authtoken: (my auth token)
remote_management: null

tunnels:
  bc:
    proto: http
    hostname: bc.ngrok.io
    addr: 127.0.0.1:5000

Then run this terminal shortcut that I set up:

ngbc

That is my terminal shortcut which will run the following (first it CDs to ~/code, then it runs ./ngrok start bc )

cd ~/code && ./ngrok start bc

Run a random ngrok URL

First, run the server for one of your projects so that you can see it at localhost

Then:

cd ~/code
./ngrok http 3000

That should provide you with the URL where you can view the tunneled server.

If this is a Rails project, then you might see a Rails error telling you that you need to add that URl to the config file. Copy/paste that provided code and place it at the top of config/environments/development.rb