Localtunnel: Disconnects automatically after very short time

[kdoggthebus]

No error is thrown, but my localtunnel disconnects automatically after an incredibly short period of inactivity. It seems to disconnect in under 1 min of inactivity - which makes it very difficult to develop with. Is there any way to disable/increase this timeout?

[tezlopchan]

create as bash script like try.sh with

#!/bin/bash
lt --subdomain testratesyapp --port 3000

and then run watch n30 ./try.sh so this runs the try.sh every 30 sec
and it worked for me with a constant subdomain

[perqa]

Duplicate of "the server is not running persistently #111" https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/issues/111

[si458]

i did the following on my OSX with this issue,
it simply checks every 30 secs, if the app closed, it re-runs it 👍

!/bin/bash

while :;
do
clear
date
/usr/local/bin/lt --subdomain (UR DOMAIN) --local-host 127.0.0.1 --port 80
sleep 30
done

[reorx]

I use a crontab to restart it every 15m, works for me.

*/15 * * * * cd /home/work/supervisor && supervisorctl restart localtunnel

[HasanY1989]

Can some 1 explain me how to do this?

[sergeyganago]

And author thinks this is better than ngrok???

[defunctzombie]

And author thinks this is better than ngrok???

@sergeyganago relax, Where do you see me saying it is better than ngrok or forcing anyone to use this? I made this project because I had a random idea on how to do local server exposure with nodejs, that's it. Please take your negative shit comments elsewhere.

[tuononh]

And author thinks this is better than ngrok???

For free users: Yes. I'm creating a messenger bot and it needs a persistent url.

[tuononh]

@si458 I don't think your script will check for anything. It just simple does what watch does. Run lt every 30 secs.