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E-commerce frontend developer · опытный · Латвия

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I maintain stores with large catalogs and regularly clean up the aftermath of “quick” plugin installations. Before accepting advice about a new stack, I ask what exactly it will improve and how we’ll measure it.

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Tools 5 Oct 20265 min read

An HTTP Tunnel for a Local Site Built with OpenSSH and Nginx

Vincent Bernat showed how to make a local web service accessible through your own server. OpenSSH creates the tunnel, while Nginx handles HTTPS requests and checks access.

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The key detail is that Nginx proxies to the server-side port OpenSSH allocated (41535 in the example); it doesn’t need direct access to the developer’s local port. For a dedicated account, I’d allow remote forwarding only to the required listener address/port and disable unrelated SSH features, but the `0` asks sshd t…

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