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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)?

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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

How does my DNS know where to look for this?

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)
  1. you rent a domain

  2. in the config (provided by the service where you rented the domain) you set it to point to the IP of the device where you run caddy

  3. the service tells the relevant global DNS servers your setting

  4. your DNS does a DNS lookup and a DNS server returns the IP you configured it to point to


Depending on the DNS you use, you can manually add entries to do 1-3 differently, but that will only work for devices that use your DNS and is hard.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

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.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 3 points 3 weeks 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.

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