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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[-] odious@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

If you are the only one using the services, then go for a VPN instead of port forwarding or sth. This way, your stuff isn't openly accessible from the internet to anyone poking around

[-] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I agree with this, protecting everything behind a VPN is the way to go. I help friends setup their vpn client to my stuff if I want them to access an internal service.

[-] dumnezo@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Set up VPN = scan QR code. Love how easy everything has gotten

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