Web Based VSCode with code server
7#VSCode #BrowserBasedTools #DeveloperTools
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0196.html
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Installing code-server
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01. Log into the Linux device
02. Run the following commands in a terminal:
# download the code-server install.sh
wget https://code-server.dev/install.sh
# make it executable
chmod +x ./install.sh
# run the installer
sudo ./install.sh --prefix=/usr/local
# start the service as root
sudo su
sudo systemctl enable --now code-server@$USER
exit
# edit the config.yaml
sudo nano /root/.config/code-server/config.yaml
03. Edit the password, or change the authentication type to none and change the bind-addr to bind-addr: 127.0.0.1:8888
04. Continue with the following command in terminal:
# restart code-server service
sudo systemctl restart code-server@root.service
05. Launch on web browser on the host running code-server and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8888
06. Browser based VS Code......pretty nice
Out of the box, code-server is only reachable from the host that it is installed on. An easy to configure workaround is to setup a proxy server to allow requests to Apache/NGINX to be routed to code-server.
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Apache Proxy Server (optional, but recommended)
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01. Run the following commands in terminal:
# install apache httpd
sudo apt install apache2
# enable headers, rewrite, proxy and proxy_http modules
sudo a2enmod proxy proxy_http rewrite headers proxy_wstunnel
# edit the default site
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
02. Paste the following configuration into the existing VirtualHost
≪location /code≫
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/code/ [L,R=301]
≪/location≫
≪location /code/≫
Header set X-Frame-Options ALLOWALL
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} =websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) ws://127.0.0.1:8888/$1 [P,L]
ProxyPreserveHost on
ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8888/
ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8888/
≪/location≫
03. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to code-server.conf
04. Continue with the following commands in terminal:
# restart the apache service
sudo systemctl restart apache2
05. Back in the web browser, navigate to http://DNSorIP/vscode
06. Enjoy your web based VS Code
Source: https://github.com/cdr/code-server
Proxy resource: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/282
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