Ideas wanted

Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 29 points – 12 months ago

Hey all. Ive been hosting some software for a while now, some private, some public stuff.

Recently ive gotten myself a domain name, and i'm trying to come up with a good way to have access to both the public AND the private on the same URL. Simpleton that i am i thought about putting the public in an inline frame with a banner with links at the top, but im sure there are better ways.

Any ideas how to do this from this community?

Edit : After all these comments, i stumbled upon Nginx. After some startup problems, i now have Nginx running in a docker on the same remote server. Plenty of questions left but most notably (and hereby clarified) : Is there something like a management page-thingy i can install that lets me manage the content of the various containers? Think sonarr, a torrent client, nginx, etc.

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Not sure if I completely understand but I think you want public service 1 accessible on subdomains s1.domain.com and internal service 2 on s2.domain.com?

Just point the A record for s2 to an internal ip address (or a tailscale ip). The only thing dns does is translate a (sub)domain to an ip address. So outside of your network s2.domain.com wouldn't resolve but inside your network it would.

That's what I did:

There is *.selfhosting.domain.tld that points to my router's IP address, which then redirects to an nginx+certbot reverse proxy
Then there is *.local.domain.tld that points to my local IP with Caddy

The only challenging part was to configure Caddy to issue SSL certificates using the DNS challenge since *.local.domain.tld isn't exposed to the outside world.

Or just use one, and then run a local DNS resolver like pihole or AdGuard home and just make a record for the same host locally. The local DNS resolver will resolve the local request before it reaches the public DNS.

subdomains would work, though ive never worked on it without a gui. Time to do some learning i guess :)

OK, I didn't read before answering, probably ignore my answer below but I'll leave it up incase someone learns something from it.

I prefer to use a local DNS for internal services just so there is less publically available information about my internal network. No need to let everyone know what address space I use or which vlan certain services are on. Also means you don't have to wait for public DNS servers to update.