Running pong from a remote server

[miramastoras]

I would like to run pong from my lab's remote HPCC cluster server, but it appears that pong is not able to create the Tornado web connection when I run it from the remote server (at least, the http://localhost:4000 address doesn't work when I open my browser, and the command stalls after telling me to open the web browser). Do you have any guidance on running pong through a remote server, or is our only option to disable the Tornado instance using --disable_server and use -v to generate files for DISTRUCT?

Thank you very much for your help.

[abehr]

Hi Mira - Remote hosting isn't officially supported, but we are looking into adding it in a future release. Meanwhile, check out this PR, which may be of use to you.

[miramastoras]

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for your reply. I actually spoke to a colleague who pointed me to this port forwarding workaround for running on a remote server and I was able to get it to work:

ssh -N -L 4000:localhost:4000 <remote cluster>

I ran the command on my terminal, left it hanging, and then opened up a new tab and logged into the cluster and ran pong. This command setup port forwarding from my laptop’s port 4000 to the remote cluster’s port 4000.

[abehr]

That's a great workaround - thanks for sharing!