Remote accessing Jupyter Notebook running on a server

jupyter_notebook_remote.txt

This document is about running jupyter notebook on a server and accessing it on a local machine. 

On the remote machine, start jupyter notebook
remote_user@remote_host$ ipython notebook --no-browser --port=8889

when the notebook will start, it will generate a token.


On the local machine, start SSH tunnel

local_user@local_host$ ssh -N -L localhost:8888:localhost:8889 remote_user@remote_host

it will ask for token which was generated on the remote machine/

go to the browser on local machine and type localhost:8888