I apologize in advance for asking a question about ssh port forwarding as I know there are many many examples online but I simply have not figured out an answer to my specific problem yet after spending half a day on it. Seems like what I am trying to do should be simple.

Basically I have a remote machine which I have full creds on running SSH and a webserver on its localhost port 8080. At first I tried tunneling X11 over ssh and using Firefox but it is way too slow.

Then I thought what if I can get SSH to listen on that remote host port 80 and have it forward me localhost:8080 so I would basically just open my client web browser, connect to that remote server:80 and then get forwarded to locahost:8080. So far the commands I have used are not working. I assume this should be possible.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

R Joe

The basic syntax to forward a local port on the server via ssh is:
In the case of forwarding a web server the URL on your client computer would be

An alternative is to use the '-D' option to ssh and set your local browser to use a SOCKS proxy, which is way quicker than running a remote browser instance over the tunnel. If you are concerned about DNS leakage from your local system, then you will want your remote system to also perform DNS lookups.

I appreciate the help everyone supplied, however that information was pretty much exactly what I already found online. For my specific case, using CentOS the main big issue was the -R port forwarding was not binding on all interfaces. To enable it I had to do two things:

1. change ssh configuration to enable GatewayPorts then restart SSH
2. explicitly enable 0.0.0.0

This link explains further: https://superuser.com/questions/5885...open-to-public

R
Joe