this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
45 points (95.9% liked)

Selfhosted

38810 readers
244 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I have self hosted immich on Debian on my homelab. I have also setup tailscale to be able to access it outside my home.

Sometime ago, I was able to purchase a domain of my choice from GoDaddy. While I am used to hosting stuff on Linux, I've never exposed it for access publicly. I want to do that now.

Is it something I can do within tailscale or do I need to setup something like cloudflare? What should I be searching for to learn and implement? What precautions to take? I would like to keep the tailscale thing too.

PS: I would like to host immich as a subdomain like photos.mydomain.com.

Thanks!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

You use a reverse proxy. Configure your DNS (GoDaddy in this case) to forward requests to your domain to your WAN IP. Set up port forwarding on your router to send HTTPS requests to your server, then the reverse proxy processes the request and directs it to the proper container.

This is honestly the most confusing and complicated part of self-hosting.

It's also all made very simple using Yunohost.

Also please move away from GoDaddy as soon as possible. Popular alternatives would be NameCheap or Porkbun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I have used reverse proxy in office setup where my local IP was NATed to a dedicated public IP. But in my home lab, I don't have a dedicated public IP. So, i need to figure a way around that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just run a cron job updating your IP every 24 hours. All I've ever done for the last decade or so.

I should clarify, I use namecheap as my registrar and Afraid as my nameserver. Afraid has curl, cron and even just a url i think you can use to update your IP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you! I'll look into it.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (11 replies)