Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost

Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost by greg5green on Saturday May 06, 2017 @04:44AM (#14279364)

You can use ngrok without paying, you just get weird domains like n56897as.ngrok.com (this is off the top of my head, idk how close I got to a real one). This works fine most of the time.

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Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost by sb8244 on Saturday May 06, 2017 @09:47AM (#14280207)

I do this on my MacBook. If I shut the lid with it online, it comes back online to the same URL. This allows me to update my URL very infrequently.

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Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost by amjd on Saturday May 06, 2017 @09:08AM (#14280062)

Custom subdomains are available for non-paying users too. You just need to create a free account.

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Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost by sb8244 on Saturday May 06, 2017 @09:45AM (#14280200)

That isn't true for ngrok2. Ngrok 1 allowed for this but has been sunset.

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Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost by scotteh on Saturday May 06, 2017 @10:11AM (#14280297)

It's absolutely possible. Admittedly I'm still running 2.1.18, but I just tested it there and it still works.

https://ngrok.com/docs#subdomain

edit: Just in case, I updated to 2.2.4 (newest) and it's still possible to use custom subdomains.

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Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost by conqrr on Saturday May 06, 2017 @10:31AM (#14280398)

This doesn't work. I just checked.

Tunnel session failed: Only paid plans may bind custom subdomains. Failed to bind the custom subdomain 'blahblahblah' for the account xxx

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Re:Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost by scotteh on Saturday May 06, 2017 @01:30PM (#14281341)

Strange. Did you have the account back when it was still possible? They may have grandfathered the older accounts in.

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