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Asitha Lakshan
Asitha Lakshan

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Public Your localhost URLs with Pinggy

Pinggy is a secure tunneling service to localhost that allows you to share your website or app easily with the public. It Creates HTTP, TCP, or TLS tunnels to your Mac / PC even if it is sitting behind firewalls and NATs.

You do not need to configure a cloud or server to host your websites or do not need to install any apps or packages into your local PC.

Also, Pinggy provides a powerful TUI and a Web Debugger for monitoring and debugging incoming requests in real-time.

Share your localhost URL

  1. Run your application on localhost
  2. Find the localhost port where your application is running
  3. Goto pinggy.io and enter the Your local port

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  1. Copy the command generated by the pinggy.io and run it on your localhost to start the tunnel ssh -p 443 -R0:localhost:3000 -L4300:localhost:4300 qr@a.pinggy.io
  2. After running the command you can see the public URL and the QR code for the tunnel.

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