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Minor edits to cloud connection steps
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cloudwiser authored Jun 23, 2017
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# Connecting to your instance on the cloud

If you're using EC2 or any other cloud provider as a means to test out red-pnda, then chances are you might not be able to connect to the PNDA console through an elastic IP.
If you're using EC2 or any other cloud provider as a means to test out red-pnda, then the chances are you might not be able to connect to the PNDA console through an elastic IP.

Here are the steps to overcome the limitation:
Here are the steps to overcome this limitation:

* ssh to your cloud instance with a '-D' flag
* ssh to your cloud instance with the '-D' and '-q' flags
* '-q' sets the logging to quiet and suppresses any error messages

ssh -i /path/to/your/key.pem -D 8888 [email protected]
ssh -i /path/to/your/key.pem -q -D 8888 [email protected]

* Download FoxyProxy extension for your browser. Please use the following links to download

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Click 'OK'. Make sure the extension is enabled, you should see a blue indicator to the right of your address bar!

* Type the private IP of your ec2 instance in the browser and behold, Magic!
* Type the private or public IP of your ec2 instance in the browser and you should see the console
* Note the console can take 10-15 secs to show the active running status
* Magic!



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