ngrok step not setup properly

[Rick-Kirkham]

The article tells the user to "In a terminal, run ngrok http -host-header=rewrite 3978."
This generates an error saying that there's no such command as ngrok.
This happens because the earlier article about prerequisites told readers to install ngrok, but did not tell them to add the path to the installed ngrok.exe to the PATH environment variable. You need to either tell the reader to add this to the PATH variable, or you need to tell to navigate to the folder where ngrok is installed and then run the command.

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• Content: Get started - Build a bot - Teams
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• Product: msteams
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[RamaMohanaChary]

Hi @Rick-Kirkham,

Checking this with internal team and will get back to you soon.

[RamaMohanaChary]

Hi @Rick-Kirkham,

Could you please share us the error that you are facing with ngrok. Meanwhile please try this
ngrok http 3978 --host-header=localhost

[Rick-Kirkham]

The error is in the following screen shot. As you can see in the screen shot, the alternate command you suggested gives the same error.

As I noted in the original issue, I have already diagnosed the problem and told you what needs to change in the documentaiton.

[RamaMohanaChary]

Sure, thank you, will update to the concerned team.

[v-vrajaraman]

Fixed as part of #2907 .

[Rick-Kirkham]

@v-vrajaraman Actually 2907 doe NOT fix this issue. None of the changes in that PR add the neeced missing step of adding the path to ngrok to the PATH environment variable.

[ghost]

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