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title: "Ngrok"
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date: 2019-11-20T20:56:19-05:00
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draft: false
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tags: ["Networking"]
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---
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Let's say you want to spin up a quick demo for a client and you don't want to use a VPS, and they can't access your laptop through the network.
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The easiest way I've known for the past few years to allow another person to access a specific port on your machine is through [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/). Ngrok is nice because not only do they offer a free plan, but they also offer paid plans. This means that you can trust that it'll at least be in business for a little while longer ;)
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## The Process
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You'll need to sign up for an account first. I was then going to write about some of the following steps, but `ngrok` has a really nice quad chart when you login
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Just note that in step (3) you will actually have a random sequence of characters after `authtoken`.
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Something else you might want to know is how to enable TLS support, luckily that's a simple command line argument.
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```bash
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ngrok http -bind-tls=true port
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```
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