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A few Questions about reverse proxies and running your own Jellyfin server (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by KpntAutismus@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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First things first, the setup is currently up and running. but i would like to modify it to use a reverse proxy through my personal domain.

Currently, i'm using an old pc with Truenas and a jail with jellyfin in it. i'm connecting to it with the free Fritz!Box VPN service.

but that's stupid and slow. so i've bought a domain at godaddy.com. but i don't understand the principle of whatever is managing the domain knowing the public IP-adress of my server. i've heard of Caddy, but it's also running locally, so i don't understand how i connect the pc to the domain.

if anyone could simplify this down for me, it'd be very helpful.

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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Your basic requirements are:

Some kind of domain / subdomain payed or free;
Home ISP that has provides public IP addresses - No CGNAT BS;
A dynamic DNS service such as https://freedns.afraid.org/;
Configure your router to forward your jellyfin port to the server.

The working principle is: your home has a dynamic IP address that might change at any time. You're going to use a dynamic DNS service do to have a domain name that always points to the correct IP. To accomplish this you'll be required to install a small tool in your server that monitors your public IP and whenever it changes calls the dynamic DNS service with the update. The best part is that you don't even need to own a domain for that.