Getting Started | LocalXpose Docs

LocalXpose is a reverse proxy that enables you to expose your localhost services to the internet.

Regions

Currently the available regions that you can issue tunnels to are:

United states
Europe
Asia Pacific
Australia (SOON)

Supported Tunnels

HTTP/s
TLS
TCP
UDP

Supported platforms

Linux
Windows
Mac

Download

LocalXpose has two options, Command line (CLI) or Graphical User Interface (GUI), it is cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS).

Package manager for Linux

$ snap install localxpose

$ npm install -g loclx

Debain

Ubuntu

Mint

(.deb)

Red Hat

CentOS

Fedora

(.rpm)

Arch Linux

(.pkg.tar.zst)

Binary download for Linux

Start your first tunnel

Signup

https://localxpose.io/signup (opens in a new tab)

Verify your email address

By clicking the Verify button in your email inbox.

Login

Copy your access token

Your access token will be under access tab in your dashboard or go directly here https://localxpose.io/dashboard/access (opens in a new tab).

Start the client

Double click the downloaded binary, this will open the browser for you to access the GUI version.

Login using your access token

Once you access the GUI version through the browser, login using your access token copied from Step 4, or you can use the CLI to login by doing:

# *nix operating systems
loclx account login
 
# windows
loclx.exe account login

Start your tunnel

Help

You can always refer to CLI help command, for instance if you need to know the options you have in the http tunnel, you can do loclx tunnel http --help, or if you need to know how to reserve a domain name you can do loclx domain --help.

You are most welcome to reach us by email hello@localxpose.io or by clicking the chat button in our home page https://localxpose.io (opens in a new tab), or get help from other LocalXpose users https://roadmap.localxpose.io (opens in a new tab).

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