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How are you making services remotely accessible? (kbin.run)
submitted 7 months ago by stevecrox@kbin.run to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I need help figuring out where I am going wrong or being an idiot, if people could point out where...

I have a server running Debian 12 and various docker images (Jellyfin, Home Assistant, etc...) controlled by portainer.

A consumer router assigns static Ip addresses by MAC address. The router lets me define the IP address of a primary/secondary DNS. The router registers itself with DynDNS.

I want to make this remotely accessible.

From what I have read I need to setup a reverse proxy, I have tried to follow various guides to give my server a cert for the reverse proxy but it always fails.

I figure the server needs the dyndns address to point at it but I the scripts pick up the internal IP.

How are people solving this?

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My advice is to just use Tailscale. It’s a 5 minute setup and you get access to your stuff from anywhere, securely, without opening ports to the public internet. It will give your server a second IP address, which you will be able to access from any other device which is also registered to your Tailscale account.

My personal setup:

  • Tailscale installed on all devices that need access to my home lab
  • Custom domain with root A record set to server’s Tailscale IP
  • caddyserver reverse proxy on server, with DNS https authentication configured (regular http with won’t work because it’s not on the public internet)
  • services all on subdomains
[–] impure9435@kbin.run 2 points 6 months ago

Btw you can self host an open source Tailscale server called Headscale. And there's NetBird which is a fully open source alternative to Tailscale.