Articles → MICROSOFT BOT FRAMEWORK → Ngrok

Ngrok

Purpose

1. Secure tunneling (Tunneling means movement of data from one network to another).
2. Public URL .

Install Ngrok

1. Navigate to the URL - https://ngrok.com/download
2. Click on the button "Download for windows" (you can select more options based on your operating system).

Click to Enlarge


3. A zip file gets downloaded. After the download is completed, extract the file.
4. A file "ngrok.exe" gets extracted.
5. Once you click on the file "ngrok.exe", a command line window gets opened.

Click to Enlarge

How To Create A Tunnelling Service?

ngrok http 3978 --host-header=localhost