SSH Tunneling - Simple localhost port forwarding

 Recently I saw an application that run on 127.0.0.1 port 8080 on the server that I need to access from my workstation. The easiest way to access this is to use ssh tunneling. 

To tunnel remote port to local machine, you can just perform the following:

ssh -g -L 9999:localhost:8080 -f -N username@remoteip

This will allow your local machine port 9999 to be tunneled to the remote machine application on port 8080

Launch your browser and login to http://localhost:9999 and you will be accessing the application running on the server localhost.   

Until next time :)