PT Magic setup on Ubuntu 17.10

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In this post I will explain how to install, configure and run PT Magic (PTM), a free add-on for the Profit Trailer (PT) cryptocurrency trading bot, on a VPS using Ubuntu. As an extra security precaution the PTM GUI is only accessible through a SSH tunnel using PuTTY with port forwarding. This avoids opening additional ports on the VPS to the outside world.

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Using the hosts file on Windows with ports

As you might or might not know I’m running Profit Trailer (PT) on a VPS. To be safe the GUI is not accessible to the outside world, but only through an SSH tunnel. It has been irritating me for a while that the URLs are not readable, e.g. localhost:8081. I wanted readable URLs without ports in them. Today I finally figured out how to do this using a combination of host file and the Windows networking tool netsh.

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