Ngrok

Ngrok is a tool that enables developers to expose a local web server to the Internet with minimal effort. Ngrok will create a secure tunnel from a public URL to our locally running web server. Ngrok is easy to install and works on all major operating systems. Download ngrok from its official website and install it.

Install and use

On Linux or OSX you can unzip ngrok from a terminal with the following command. On Windows, just double click ngrok.zip.

$ unzip /path/to/ngrok.zip

Now you can create a secure HTTP tunnel by providing the port number on which your web server is running. For example, your web server is running on port number 5000. you can launch your HTTP tunnel with the following command line.

$ ./ngrok http 5000

After launching the secure HTTP tunnel, ngrok will display a UI in your terminal with the public URL of your tunnel along with some other information shown below.

ngrok by @inconshreveable                                       (Ctrl+C to quit)
                                                                                
Session Status                online                                            
Session Expires               7 hours, 59 minutes                               
Update                        update available (version 2.3.35, Ctrl-U to update
Version                       2.3.34                                            
Region                        United States (us)                                
Web Interface                 http://127.0.0.1:4040                             
Forwarding                    http://c654b286.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:5000 
Forwarding                    https://c654b286.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:5000
                                                                                
Connections                   ttl     opn     rt1     rt5     p50     p90       
                              0       0       0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  

If the provided information is not enough, kindly visit ngrok official website.