Setting up a Remote Jupyter Lab Server

In order to setup a remote Jupyter Lab server you must complete the following steps:

1. Open ports 22 (ssh) and 8888 (jupyter)
2. Configure Jupyter Lab to request a password instead of a token
3. Start the Jupyter Lab server on the Remote server
4. Access Jupyter on your local browser

Configure your Router

This step will be router specific but will be a similar process no matter what kind of router you have.

You will need to do get the IP address of your server:

$ hostname -I
192.168.0.120

Use this private IP address when forwarding both ports 22 and 8888

Configure Jupyter Lab Password

$ jupyter notebook --generate-config
$ jupyter notebook password
Enter password:  ****
Verify password: ****
[NotebookPasswordApp] Wrote hashed password to /Users/username/.jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.json

You will use this password when logging in remotely

Starting Jupyter Lab on the Remote Server

jupyter-lab --ip 0.0.0.0 --port 8888 --no-browser

Starting Jupyter like this will make sure you can access it publicly and will also stop Jupyter from trying to start a browser instance on your remote machine

Access Jupyter on a Local Browser

Navigate to the following address:

http://<your-routers-public-ip>:8888

It should ask you for the password you set up earlier and you should be able to use Jupyter Lab remotely