Problems - Installation

[ryanwesslen]

hi @JFernando!

Are you running Prodigy on a local machine (e.g., a personal laptop/desktop)?

If so, the easiest approach may be to use a service like ngrok:

Tip: Making a local Prodigy service externally accessible with ngrok.com

Sometimes you want the server running on your dev machine to be accessible to someone else — or even just yourself, so you can do some annotation on the train or from the couch with your mobile device. I haven’t tried it yet, but this service looks like it should be useful: https://ngrok.com Has anyone used this for other projects? They have a free tier, and the full service isn’t very expensive. If you try it out, let us know how it goes!

My colleague @koaning has a great tutorial on ngrok at calmcode.io (I personally highly recommend it for many Python libraries!).

Alternatively, you can set your localhost to 0.0.0.0 but this is usually better for servers where you also likely need to set up reverse proxies/https, login/authentication, and open up ports and manage firewalls:

Accessing prodigy from outside

Ah, I'm not really suggesting ngrok as a "solution" – it's just a handy tool that makes it easy to try things locally and quickly mirror your localhost. It's the quickest way to get started and it's a popular tool with a premium plan that includes encryption – I haven't heard anything negative about it. Yes, you should be able to set that up with a reverse proxy – also see here:

But all of those requires a strong knowledge of networking and may be a lot of work if you're new to it.

Also, in the last post I attached, be sure to see the follow up comment on using named multi-user sessions too with ngrok. This can help you track multiple users' sessions.

Hope this helps!