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ngrok works correctly through an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy. ngrok respects the standard unix environment variable
http_proxy
. You may also set proxy configuration explicitly in the ngrok configuration file:
Set the configuration variable
proxy_url
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Virtual hosts (MAMP, WAMP, etc)