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Code-server additional settings

Things that i forgot in the video.

Here is the link to the vide.

A quick thing to mention

I forgot to tell you one important thing. You can access your code-server from any
browser without even ssh'ing into your remote server.

See the image below.
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You need to change the bind-addr in your config file which is located at

  • Path: ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml ```

bind-addr: 0.0.0.0:8000
auth: password
password: SECRET_PASSWORD
cert: false

The `0.0.0.0` indicates that you can access using your localhost as weel as the public
IP Address of your remote machine.
So basically, it means you can use either `localhost:8000` (With port forwarding) or
`divcorn.com:8000` (without port forwarding).

### Case with `localhost` or `127.0.0.1`
It basically says that the traffic is only accessible from your local machine.

### Case with `0.0.0.0`
It basically says that the traffic is accessible from your local machine as well as 
public ip address.


## I want to access with `divcorn.com` only.
That's a good question, you can achieve it from one of the following ways.

### Using port 80
When we enter the address of a website, our web browser tries to conect to port 80 by default, that means `divcorn.com` and `divcorn.com:80` are the same.

Instead of `0.0.0.0:8000`, you can use `0.0.0.0:80` then run it

> ⚠️ Make sure to stop other services (if any) which are running on port 80.

### Using Reverse Proxy with NginX (Preferred)
Many times you might be using you port 80 for your website hosting (if any).
In those cases we can add a `CNAME` record from our domain's DNS management console.
Which is pointing to `@` or your public ip address and value will be a string example 
`code`. Then we can create a nginx config file where we will listen at port 80 from the
url `code.divcorn.com` and use the reverse proxy to direct the traffic from port 8000 to
the port 80 with `code.divcorn.com` only.

> If you want a video on it, please make sure to tell me.


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Hmm, but you can also use certbot, that will provide SSL certificate for free, you can configure it with you nginx conf, and you'll have a SSL protected site.

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