CSIL: ssh port forwarding

How to access webapps running on CSIL from your local machine

When you want to access a localhost:8080 web app running on CSIL from a non-CSIL computer, e.g. your laptop:

At a command prompt (terminal prompt on MacOS, Linux, WSL, Windows 10, or git bash shell on Windows), you can type this:

ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 username@csil-xx.cs.ucsb.edu

where:

• username is your actual CSIL username
• xx is some number between 01 and 48

That will set up port 8080 on your local machine as a tunnel to “localhost:8080” on the CSIL machine. Then, if you put localhost:8080 in your browser, you should be getting access to localhost:8080 on the CSIL machine you are ssh’ing into.