philchillbill wrote: > Here's an updated ngrok setup instruction which I will add to the online > instructions. It runs ngrok in the background so putty can be closed and > it avoids the ctrl-c issue when trying to copy the assigned tunnel > subdomain. > > I'm going to delete the whole reference to serveo. It was only there to > support people running on NAS who cannot run ngrok on their LMS machine > itself. You can, however, run ngrok on a different machine and point it > to LMS. You need a spare Pi for this, for example, but it's much more > robust and secure than serveo and addresses all platforms. Plus, you can > leave that Pi running forever to keep the same assigned ngrok > subdomain. > > If ngrok is on the *same *machine as LMS, at a command prompt type: > > ngrok http -auth "user:password" 9000 > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > If ngrok is on a *different *machine, point it to LMS by typing: > > ngrok http -auth "user:password" 192.168.x.y:9000 > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > The ngrok service will start silently and run in the background due to > the '&' at the end. > To find our assigned tunnel subdomain, we can query the ngrok web UI at > port 4040 for the public_url entry by typing > > curl http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels | grep -Po https://.+?\.io > > The result will look something like https://19279a3a.ngrok.io > > Hope this is clear(er)?
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