ipython notebook server on a remote machine

Goal: running an ipython notebook server on a remote machine, and access from a local browser

How to: (shamelessly copied from someone’s blog

1. On the remote machine:

ipython notebook --no-browser --port=7777

2. On the local machine, my remote machine can only be accessed via a login node, so I need to use a multi-hop ssh tunnel. In order not to type the following every time, save it into a file.

host1=username@login_node.com
host2=username@dest.ination.com
ssh -L 7777:localhost:7777 $host1 ssh -L 7777:localhost:7777 -N $host2

If you don’t need to go through a login node, it is a little easier:

ssh -N -f -L localhost:7777:localhost:7777 username@dest.ination.com