Getting Started
LocalXpose is a reverse proxy that enables you to expose your localhost services to the internet.
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.
Currently the available regions that you can issue tunnels to are:
- United states
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- Australia (SOON)
- HTTP/s
- TLS
- TCP
- UDP
- Linux
- Windows
- Mac
- 1.
- 2.Verify your email address by clicking the
Verify
button in your email inbox. - 3.
- 4.Copy your access token that will be under
access
tab in your dashboard or go directly here https://localxpose.io/dashboard/access. - 5.Download the CLI from the homepage.
- 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
orpowershell
then navigate to your downloaded binary likecd C:\Users\example
. - 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
.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.Last modified 9mo ago