Playground client not accessible remotely

[tdiesler]

This issue came up while taking part in the pioneer program

On MacOS there seem to be numerous issues with compiling the English Auction contract. Instead of trying to resolve those, I moved to a Debial10 hosted on GCE. I got the contract compiled and the playground server/client started.

However, because this is a remote machine I cannot access the playground-client on: https://localhost:8009

Instead, I'd like the playground-client to bind to 0.0.0.0, so that I can use the remote IP.

CrossRef: input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program#3

Diagnostic info:

• I was using the:
  • Plutus Playground

[tdiesler]

Adding host: "0.0.0.0" in plutus/plutus-playground-client/webpack.config.js seems to work ...

    devServer: {
        contentBase: path.join(__dirname, "dist"),
        compress: true,
        host: "0.0.0.0",
        port: 8009,
        https: true,
        proxy: {
            "/api": {
                target: 'http://localhost:8080'
            }
        }
    },

Not sure if this can generally be done to go forward.

[KevinHock]

For security reasons, defaulting to 0000 seems not good

[yangzai]

I spent a long time tweaking my router and firewalls before realising it was a webpack issue: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/#devserverhost

[kk-hainq]

One can also create an SSH tunnel between the local machine and the cloud instance with something like:

ssh -i xxx.pem -N -L 8009:localhost:8009 xxx@xx.xxx.xx.xxx

To access the client through https://localhost:8009 just fine.

[tdiesler]

I think we can close this