Hi everybody.

How should I setup reverse proxy for my services? I’ve got things like jellyfin, immich a bitwarden running on my Debian server in docker. So should i install something like nginx for each of these also in docker? Or should I install it from repository and make configs for each of these docker services?

Btw I have no idea how to use something like nginx or caddy but i would still like to learn.

Also can you use nginx for multiple services on the same port like(443)?

  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    Is this a local address or a public IP address?

    I just want the resolving internal to my network but I never got it working right.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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      3 hours ago

      If you want DNS only in your LAN, you need to self host a DNS server and register this domain locally (by putting it in some config file of yours)

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      4 hours ago

      I’ve got the external IP addresses down pat. I’m with you in that I’ve never quite figured out how to do the same with local IP addresses.

    • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      I’m not the guy you replied to but personally I use a setup called split-horizon DNS.

      1. I have a DNS server running on a raspberry pi which I have set up as the DNS server for all devices in my local network (by setting it in the router).
      2. This DNS server has my domain name as an A record pointing to my reverse-proxy (Nginx Proxy Manager), e.g. example.com would resolve to 192.168.0.100.
      3. Any subdomain I want to use is set up as a CNAME record in my DNS server referring to the previously configured A record with my domain. (jellyfin.example.com => example.com)
      4. Now all requests to the registered domain and subdomain are routed to my reverse-proxy which I configured to forward them to the correct service depending on the given subdomain.

      This is a little bit of a simplification. I also use a cloudflare tunnel to allow access to select subdomains and I have 2 reverse-proxies chained together since NPM can resolve services by their container name as long as they are in the same docker network.

      Also probably important: My DNS server was a pi-hole (until today at least) and did not act as my DHCP server. This meant it had no idea of local device hostnames and therefore was configured to forward queries to local device names to my routers built-in DNS server.

      The domain I use for my services is one I rent from a registrar so that I can get valid SSL certificates without self-signing them. If you are fine with self-signed certificates or simple http you probably don’t need to do that.

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        17 minutes ago

        I’m looking to do something like this. I’m uneasy about having the registered domain pointing towards my IP address (partially because I’m unsure of the exact risks and partially because I’d rather do it internally if possible).

        You said you were using pihole. What did you change to and why did you change? Pihole seems the most recommended from what I’ve seen?