ngrok installation

Ngrok is an appliation that creates secure tunnels (paths) to localhost machine. It enables developers to expose a local development server to the Internet with minimal effort.

  1. Login/ Signup on ngrok.

  2. Download the zip file according to your device architecture(32 or 64 bit).

  3. Extract the zip file and run the setup.

  4. copy auth token form https://dashboard.ngrok.com/get-started/your-authtoken and run it on the ngrok setup to authenticate your ngrok agent.

  5. Now, run the command: 'ngrok http 80' to start working with ngrok locally.

  6. After you start the ngrok agent, open http://localhost:4040 in a browser on the same machine.

You will see all of the details of every request and response including the time, duration, source IP, headers, query parameters, request payload and response body as well as the raw bytes on the wire.

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