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Ngrok Signup and Domain Acquisition

This section guides you through the process of signing up on Ngrok and acquiring domains for your project.

Ngrok Signup

Why Ngrok?

Ngrok is a versatile tool that creates secure tunnels to localhost, allowing you to expose a local server to the internet.

It's especially handy for development and testing purposes.

  1. Go to Ngrok's official website.
  2. Click on the "Sign up" button to begin the signup process.
  3. Fill in the required details to create your account.
  4. Once registered, you will be redirected to the dashboard.
  5. Here, you'll find your authtoken, which is essential for configuring Ngrok tunnels. Keep this token at hand.

Acquiring Ngrok Domains

  1. Navigate to the "Cloud Edge" --> "Domains" section in your Ngrok dashboard.
  2. Click on "New domain".
  3. You will be assigned newly created domain of something like albacore-awake-commonly.ngrok-free.app. This would be your FRONTEND domain.

Warning

  • The free tier of Ngrok allows for random domains on every tunnel creation or one static domain.

Success

You are good to go! Return back to the next section to continue the setup process.