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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TvanBuuren@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

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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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure I fully understand your question or goal but you might benefit from setting up NAT reflection for your public stuff so when you are inside your nat you can still access everything with your external domain name like you are on the Internet. I see some people referencing split DNS also and that goes along with nat reflection.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/reflection.html

There is a link to how you set it all up using pfsense.

[–] midas@ymmel.nl 2 points 1 year ago

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.

Before I write a book. What are you using internally and externally for dns?

[–] ThreeHalflings@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edit: misunderstood what OP wanted to do, leaving this here in case it's interesting to anyone.

Sounds like what you are tyring to do is called Split Horizon DNS.

Requests from outside your network should resolve server.domain.com to the public IP, but requests from inside your network should resolve it to the private IP.

If that's what it is then you register the public IP with your nameservers. You also run a DNS service internally which you point all your computers at (likely by putting it as the DNS server in your networks DHCP settings). That DNS server is set up to return the private ip addresses for all your servers, and to forward any other requests to some external DNS like 1.1.1.1

I'm not sure what your use case or for needing to use the internal IP address from inside the network, but it might be to avoid traffic exiting your network just to be sent back in? Or you me a that you want external requests to go to one server and internal to go to another server? I'm which case the set up above still works, but on just use the appropriate IP addresses in the appropriate places.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 1 year ago

This can be done easily on pihole and Adguard using the DNS alias feature.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone is suggesting cloud flare tunnels which can be easy to use but locks you into a proprietary service. If you want to self host everything, you can set it up yourself with a reverse proxy like traefik

https://youtu.be/liV3c9m_OX8

You will end up with service.local.domain.com and service.domain.com for local only apps and internet facing apps, all using HTTPS.

If you are familiar with traefik, watch a tutorial on that first, then come back and watch the above video.

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