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Getting Started

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

Download

LocalXpose has two options, Command line (CLI) or Graphical User Interface (GUI), it is cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS), you can download the suitable binary for your machine from the home page at https://localxpose.io.

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

Start your first tunnel

  1. 1.
    Signup from the home page https://localxpose.io​
  2. 2.
    Verify your email address by clicking the Verify button in your email inbox.
  3. 3.
    Login to your dashboard by clicking Login button in the home page https://localxpose.io​
  4. 4.
    Copy your access token that will be under access tab in your dashboard or go directly here https://localxpose.io/dashboard/access.
  5. 5.
    Download the CLI from the homepage.
  6. 6.
    This is a CLI app, you should start it from a terminal window (double click the app will not work), so for example in windows open your cmd.exe or powershell then navigate to your downloaded binary like cd C:\Users\example .
  7. 7.
    Login from CLI by calling:
# *nix operating systems
loclx account login
​
# windows
loclx.exe account login
7. Start your tunnel
loclx tunnel http --to localhost:8080
You can change the http tunnel type to your needs like tcp, tls or udp and change --to to your localhost service, if your local server is running on port 80 then you should forward the traffic by doing --to 80, localhost:80 , http://localhost:80 or :80.

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 [email protected] or by clicking the chat button in our home page https://localxpose.io, or get help from other LocalXpose users https://roadmap.localxpose.io.
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