vicradon/access websites through ssh on localhost.md

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Forward a remote port to local machine

Raw

ssh -L localport:localhost:remoteport username@hostip

e.g. ssh -L 9000:localhost:36839 [email protected]

You can then access the website on your local machine on this url http://localhost:9000

If you need to use a private key file, then do

ssh -i ./path-to-private-key-file -L localport:localhost:remoteport username@hostname

e.g. ssh -i key2.pem -L 9000:localhost:36839 [email protected]