About ngrok
ngrok creates a tunnel from the public internet (http://subdomain.ngrok.com) to a port on your local machine. You can give this URL to anyone to allow them to try out a web site you're developing without doing any deployment.
step 1
Download and Installation
For linux download if from below link and place it in required place
https://dl.ngrok.com/linux_386/ngrok.zip(https://ngrok.com/)
step 2
On Linux Unzip it
$ unzip /path/to/ngrok.zip
step 3
Run it!
$ ./ngrok -help
$ ./ngrok 3000
for example, if you are using port number as 3000
In your terminal you will see some thing like this
Tunnel Status online
Version ********
Forwarding http://*********.ngrok.com -> 127.0.0.1:3000
Forwarding https://********.ngrok.com -> 127.0.0.1:3000
Web Interface **************
# Conn **
Avg Conn Time 7285.98ms
HTTP Requests
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step 4
By using this link you can give this URL to anyone to allow them to try out a web site you're developing without doing any deployment.
https://********.ngrok.com -> 127.0.0.1:3000
done.......
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