Need help with allowing access to code-server outside of localhost

[wisplite]

I know this sounds ridiculous, it literally says not to do this in the docs, but hear me out:

My network is configured in such a way that there is a separate device handling reverse-proxy connections via caddy, and I need to be able to connect to code-server through the reverse proxy via that device. The only problem is I can't connect to it because code-server is restricted to just localhost. I can't configure caddy to run on the same server as code-server, because that would cause all my services to go down if the server crashes (which happens quite often).

Is there a way I could do a local reverse proxy (can't forward ports 80 or 443, as they're already being used, so I can't just have another caddy instance), or allow code-server to listen to local IPs as well as localhost?

[im-coder-lg]

Hmmm... Try using Cloudflare or ngrok(use HTTP transfer if on ngrok, also the URL changes on every ngrok start so you need to note the URL)

[jsjoeio]

Big fan of ngrok. localtunnel also works well

[nooobcoder]

@jsjoeio Wow, this localtunnel is too good, never heard before, definitely going to try that out too.

[spdk3125]

For me localtunnel was not working
could you please help me with it

[wisplite]

From what I can tell ngrok, localtunnel, etc. can only forward externally, when I need the server to listen on the local IP so my existing reverse proxy on a separate computer can connect to it.

If they have the capability to do so, let me know, but I can’t tell for sure.

[jsjoeio]

Ooo...I see. This is beyond my knowledge scope. @code-asher is out next week but will be back and can hopefully help!

[code-asher]

You can make code-server listen on something other than localhost with --bind-addr. For example --bind-addr 0.0.0.0:8080 will bind to all interfaces.