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Next, configure the connection settings for the two ecflow servers in your ecflow_ui. Make sure you use "localhost" in "Host" fields, not the actual ECMWF hostnames.
If you need your ecflow_ui to connect to a logserver at ECMWF, you You will also need to att add "127.0.0.1 logserver" alias in /etc/hosts on your laptop, so that connections from your ecflow_ui to logserver actually go to localhost (replace "logserver" with an actual ECMWF logserver name).
Limitations of Local Port Forwarding
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