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ngrok error when registering Twilio phone number

I'm following Twilio's quick start guide and am getting an error when running the following command in my console:

twilio phone-numbers:update "<MY_TWILIO_NUMBER>" --sms-url="http://localhost:1337/sms"

The error looks like this:

H: not foundngrok: 1: ����
./ngrok: 2: H__PAGEZEROx__TEXT0-0-__text__TEXT3�: not found
./ngrok: 2: ./ngrok: 2: ��R@�: not found�__rodata__TEXT@�: not found

./ngrok: 1: �#: not found
./ngrok: 2: __symbol_stub1__TEXT: not found
./ngrok: 4: �: not found
./ngrok: 5: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

I've not been able to find anything similar to this by Googling any part of the error. I have literally no idea how to proceed.

I first tried running the twilio command, which installed ngrok and then threw the error. I've since downloaded the zip file from the ngrok website and unzipped it into the project folder, but it throws the same error. I can run other commands (e.g. ./ngrok help) successfully.

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, using ngrok v2.3.35, twilio-cli v2.6.0 and node v10.19.0.

Solution

  • Current work around I'm using:

    1. Run ngrok in a terminal:
    ngrok http 1337

    1. Get the ngrok external address (e.g. https://1234567890ab.ngrok.io)

    2. Go to https://www.twilio.com/console/phone-numbers/incoming, click on the phone number you're testing and set the external address from step 2 as the messaging webhook address.

    Note that you'll need to do this every time you restart ngrok, as the external address will change each time.