Local Tunnel Installer (Ngrok Alternative)

Roll your own ngrok using your own VPS! Simple installer using Capistrano. Local tunneling done via SSH Reverse Tunneling.

Prerequisites

• This script assumes you are using Debian-based server. Tested using Ubuntu 22.04.
• You MUST use DigitalOcean DNS. If you want to use another DNS, you can edit lib/capistrano/tasks/letsencrypt.rake
• The VPS/Server hosting itself does not matter. It does not necessarily hosted on DigitalOcean
• Server setup using Capistrano. You can use rbenv/rvm. In this document, we will be using rvm.

Preparation

Install all dependency on your local

rvm install 3.1.2
git clone https://github.com/mufid-experiments/ngrok-alternative
cd ngrok-alternative
bundle

Copy example configuration file and edit it accordingly.

cp config/deploy/{production.example.rb,production.rb}

Installation

Simply run the script:

bin/cap production localtunnel:install

Don't worry, the script is idempotent.

To open tunnel from your local, run:

bin/cap production localtunnel:instruction