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# Expose a local web server

### 1. Prepare the website

We have here a website as follows

![Website files](/files/-Ls3YQkaFWyeDkFspOxU)

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### 2. Start a web server

We will serve the website by using any webserver (apache, nginx..etc), in our case we chose `http-server`(a simple, zero-configuration command-line http server).

![Starting a webserver](/files/-Ls3biNtddD40QNDhA3l)

Now we have website running on localhost at `http://localhost:8081` .

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### 3. Start an HTTP tunnel

`loclx tunnel http --to 127.0.0.1:8081 --subdomain hello-world`

After creating the tunnel and getting a shareable link to our website, we can access the website from that URL.

![Our website accessible now from the internet](/files/-Ls3zfvVUk9ndd5yMtpL)


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