{"title":"Andrew Z Allen","link":[{"@attributes":{"href":"http:\/\/andrewzallen.com\/","rel":"alternate"}},{"@attributes":{"href":"http:\/\/andrewzallen.com\/feeds\/all.atom.xml","rel":"self"}}],"id":"http:\/\/andrewzallen.com\/","updated":"2013-05-24T17:00:00-06:00","entry":[{"title":"Simple inbound HTTP server","link":{"@attributes":{"href":"http:\/\/andrewzallen.com\/tricks\/simple-inbound-http-server.html","rel":"alternate"}},"updated":"2013-05-24T17:00:00-06:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Z Allen"},"id":"tag:andrewzallen.com,2013-05-24:tricks\/simple-inbound-http-server.html","summary":"

I wanted to show a webpage I've been toying with to a friend today.\nThe project is in Django and I didn't want to take the time to deploy it to a permanent host like heroku.\nI know it is easy to do that, but I was just feeling lazy.\nI came up with a cool trick today for doing exactly this.\nI have a server that I leave on 100% of the time.<\/p>\n

I realized that I could use this server as a simple proxy and forward any web requests that came to a special domain.<\/p>\n

Using SSH I created a reverse tunnel that made my localhost's 8000 port availble on the remote machine on port 1234.<\/p>\n

ssh -R 1234:127.0.0.1:8000 ${<\/span>HOST<\/span>}<\/span>\n<\/pre><\/div>\n
This server runs nginx and has the ability to handle vhosts.\nI made a very simple nginx entry that forwarded proxy.mydomain.com to localhost:1234.\nIt looked something like this:<\/p>\n
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server {\n    listen   80;\n    server_name   ~^(www\\.)?proxy.example.com$;\n\n    access_log  \/var\/log\/nginx\/proxy.access.log;\n\n    location \/ {\n        proxy_pass http:\/\/127.0.0.1:1234;\n    }\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
I wrapped all this up in a simple little shell script and put it on my 'PATH'<\/p>\n
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#! \/usr\/bin\/env bash<\/span>\nif<\/span> [<\/span> ! -z $1<\/span> ]<\/span>\nthen<\/span>\n    <\/span>port<\/span>=<\/span>$1<\/span>\nelse<\/span>\n    <\/span>port<\/span>=<\/span>8000\nfi<\/span>\n\necho<\/span> "Connecting to server to forward port ${port} at \\<\/span>\n      http:\/\/proxy.example.com\/"<\/span>\nssh -R 1234:127.0.0.1:${<\/span>port<\/span>}<\/span> example.com \\<\/span>\n      "echo 'Forwarding... press enter to exit'; read"<\/span>\n<\/pre><\/div>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
Now when I run forward_http<\/cite> from the command line, it will automagically forward my local port 8000 to the proxy domain I set up.<\/p>\n"},{"title":"Rock Paper Scissors","link":{"@attributes":{"href":"http:\/\/andrewzallen.com\/projects\/rock-paper-scissors.html","rel":"alternate"}},"updated":"2013-04-08T16:33:00-06:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Z Allen"},"id":"tag:andrewzallen.com,2013-04-08:projects\/rock-paper-scissors.html","summary":"
Want to play a game?<\/p>\n
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