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I have a bunch of services running on my LAN, mostly from a single Debian machine. I access them at URLs like http://devicename.lan:portnumber. I would like to change to http://servicename.devicename.lan.

How it works now: The router (openwrt) sets a static IP per device and the port number is selected by the application or system unit running it.

What is the absolute simplest way to accomplish this? I don't mind if it is managed by the router or by the server machine itself. Hoping for something that can be configured with a text file or web interface or other basic mathod.

These sevices are private, just for me and I have no plans to ever access them externally. I have so far avoided any certificates or SSL or other stuff. I don't use docker and would rather not get into it right now. I like my domain name setup how it is with fake local domains.

Hoping this could be possible without making a whole project out of it.

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[โ€“] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't really like the idea of having a separate IP for every service. It would need to be configured in the service itself (assuming that is possible for all of them, I don't know), on the router, and by whatever means you create IPs. Too complex.

A lot of people are recommending caddy.

All my web services use apache or lighttd. Do I use caddy just for this or do I have to figure out how to move each of them to use this web server?

Also does it work for non-web services, like ssh or samba? (Which wasn't in my original question, I only thought of it now.)

I would look into learning about the OSI model

For context, Caddy is a reverse proxy which is specific to the layer 7 protocol http. Layer 7 protocols are generally not compatible with one another since under the hood SSH, HTTP are all very different despite them all running on top of TCP.