livetunnel - Tunnel your local files to your Webserver

Inspired by this Blogpost, I wanted to write a CLI Program to automatically tunnel HTTP(S)-Requests from a webserver you own to your local filesystem.

Features

• Opens an SSH Tunnel to your server and forwards the necessary ports
  • Supports custom connect-commands (for port-knocking etc)
• Acts as a frontend to the excellent miniserve to serve local files
  • Can serve files and websites
  • Allows to protect content with username/password
  • Allows uploads via POST-Requests
  • and much more! Definitely check them out as well!
• Once configured it remembers all your settings for speed and ease of use

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Example Nginx Config

map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
    default upgrade;
    ''      close;
}

server {
    server_name [YOUR SERVER URL];

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:[YOUR PORT];
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

        # Enables WS support
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
    }

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/[YOUR SERVER URL]/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/[YOUR SERVER URL]/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}

server {
    if ($host = [YOUR SERVER URL]) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

    server_name [YOUR SERVER URL];
    listen 80;
    return 404; # managed by Certbot
}