ngrok question (related to Holger's latest video)

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Holger just published a video that examines ngrok, and is using it to access the app inside of his dev box that's hosting the app, it's local server, and the XData service.

I have my app running on a Linux cPanel host as HTTPS://myapp.com (under Apache).

My XData service is only accessible right now on a Win Server 2016 VPS as HTTP://mysvr.com:8000 because of problems with my SSL cert. So I have to access everything using HTTP://myapp.com instead or it won't connect to the server side.

Myapp is the only thing connecting to mysvr; users don't see it.

I can NOT do this: HTTPS://myapp.com --> HTTP://mysvr:8000

I'm thinking I need: HTTPS://myapp.com --> HTTPS://...ngrok.io --> HTTP://mysvr:8000

I'm just not sure where ngrok is running. I'm thinking it's on mysvr, which means my app talks to the HTTPS side of ngrok rather than mysvr.

Any ideas on how to set up ngrok to temporarily fix this?

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I'm not an ngrok expert, but I would assume you need to setup the IP address of your Windows Server to be used by the ngrok service to let ngrok route to it.

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ngrok has it's own IP and SSL cert to funnel incoming requests. I contacted ngrok's support, and they said what I want to do is not supported. The application Holger explained isn't the same as what I want, but it's quite interesting.