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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels - ngrok alternative for exposing localhost ports to the internet
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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

Overview

  • Cloudflare Tunnels has a feature named "Quick Tunnels" that allows you to expose localhost ports to the internet via a dynamically generating unique URL.
  • Cloudflare Quick Tunnels is a free alternative to ngrok, which is a popular developer tool with more features, but does not allow you to have more than 1 instance running at a time without paying, whereas with Cloudflare Quick Tunnels there is no such limit.

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Commands

  • Commands Overview
    • After downloading, rename the executable to "cloudflared", then simply execute it from the command-line.
  • Basic Command
    • This command will start a quick tunnel that exposes whatever app you are running on port 8080 to the internet via a dynamically generated URL such as https://some-random-subdomain.trycloudflare.com
      • cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8080
  • Host Header Command
    • Use this command if you run into an "Invalid Host Header" error:
      • cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8080 --http-host-header localhost:8080
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