Local tunneling instruction

You can work on your internal servers on the Mobitru devices with the help of our CMD application.

Pre-condition: Do I need to turn on VPN on the Mobitru devices?

If you are working via our CMD application, we advise turning on a required VPN on your PC (if necessary for your application/site). In this case, you do not need to install or connect a VPN on the device. This should be done before the Steps to configure Local tunneling on the Mobitru devices.

Steps to configure Local tunneling on the Mobitru devices

  1. Contact support@mobitru.com to receive the CMD application.
  2. Generate the Access key.
  3. Start the session on a device.
  4. Copy the Serial number/UDID.
  5. Open the folder with the CMD app in the Terminal/CMD on your PC.
Open CLI on Windows
Example for Windows
  1. Run the app with the following data:

Windows: Name_of_the_CMD_app.exe client -d Serial/UDID -k ACCESS_KEY

macOS/Linux: ./Name_of_the_CMD_app client -d Serial/UDID -k ACCESS_KEY

  1. Check the server on the device from Step 3.
Localhost on the Mobitru device

Localhost URL on the Mobitru devices

To open your Localhost, type local.host on all the Mobitru devices. If your API requests fail as they are using http://localhost, you will need to change the endpoint URL to http://local.host for working on the Mobitru devices.

Use local.host to open the Localhost on a Mobitru device

Logs of a problem

If you have faced a problem during the Local tunneling feature use, add the -v parameter for running the application. Collect the logs and send them to support@mobitru.com.

Windows: Name_of_the_CMD_app.exe client -d Serial/UDID -k ACCESS_KEY -v

macOS/Linux: ./Name_of_the_CMD_app client -d Serial/UDID -k ACCESS_KEY -v

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