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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0196.html

Installing code-server

1. Log into the Linux device
2. 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
3. Edit the password, or change the authentication type to none and change the bind-addr to bind-addr: 127.0.0.1:8888
4. Continue with the following command in terminal:

   restart code-server service

   sudo systemctl restart code-server@root.service
5. Launch on web browser on the host running code-server and navigate to http://DNSorIP:8888
6. 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.

Apache Proxy Server (optional, but recommended)

1. 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
2. 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-
3. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to code-server.conf
4. Continue with the following commands in terminal:

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