Sometimes it's useful to have the Sourcegraph instance you're running on your local machine to be reachable over the internet. If you're testing webhooks, for example, where a code host needs to be able to send requests to your instances.
One way to do that is to use ngrok, a reverse proxy that allows you to expose your instance to the internet.
- Install
ngrok
:brew install ngrok
- Authenticate the
ngrok
if this is your first time running it (the token can be obtained from Ngrok dashboard):ngrok config add-authtoken <Your token>
- Start your Sourcegraph instance:
sg start
- Start
ngrok
and point it at Sourcegraph:ngrok http --host-header=rewrite 3080
- Copy the
Forwarding
URLngrok
displays. e.g.:https://630b-87-170-68-206.eu.ngrok.io
- Edit your site-config (i.e.
../dev-private/enterprise/dev/site-config.json
) and update the"externalURL"
to point to your ngrok:"externalURL": "https://630b-87-170-68-206.eu.ngrok.io"
- Open the ngrok URL in browser to make sure you see your instance
- Done