Cannot use WebUI over an SSH tunnel

[nburles]

I have BTSync working great on a couple of headless linux boxes, as well as on my linux laptop...

 

I do not want to forward port 8888 from each router to the particular local headless box, instead I wish to use the WebUI over an SSH tunnel.

 

As I am also using BTSync on my laptop, it means I cannot forward my local port 8888, as it is in use, so my usual command would be:

 

ssh -L 8889:localhost:8888 user@remotehost

 

Then viewing http://localhost:8889 actually loads the WebUI of remotehost running on port 8888.

 

Unfortunately this does not work properly, as the WebUI seems to have hardcoded in the location of AJAX calls - so it tries to perform actions on localhost:8888 (which is not the correct address!)

 

One workaround of course is to use a config file to change the WebUI port on each system, so that I can forward the same port as is being used (e.g. ssh -L 8889:localhost:8889 user@remotehost) - but this is not an ideal solution!

[nils]

Hello,

 

That's strange, I have one instance of BTsync running on FreeBSD and did an SSH forward to my local machine on port 1024 without problems. What exactly did you do in your case?

[nburles]

Nils,

 

This is strangely working for me today also - I just used

 

  ssh -L 8889:localhost:8888 user@remotehost

 

and can use the webui without any problems at http://localhost:8889.

 

Last time I tried it (exactly the same way as now, before posting the message), the JS console was throwing an error about jquery.js at http://localhost:8888 every time I tried to perform an action (view folder preferences, delete folder, add folder, etc).

 

Thanks anyway!

[jvargem]

Hi.

I'm not very tech savvy with these network things and I've been trying to find a way to remotely access BTSync Web UI on my local NAS box.By remotely I mean over the internet.

Can you guys give me some pointers on how to do this?

Thanks in advance.