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Can you have local reverse proxies? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 years ago by legoraft@reddthat.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Perhaps this is a weird question I have, but I've been watching some technotim videos lately and he seems to have local dns addresses for local services. Perhaps I've got this wrong, but if not: how would you go over doing this?

I have a pterodactyl dashboard, which I access locally using the machines IP and the port, but it would be great to have a pterodactyl.example.com domain, which isn't accessible from other networks, but does work on my own network. I also still want some services exposed to the internet, so I'm not sure if this would work.

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People already talked about hosting your own DNS, let me add that a reverse proxy would be used for something like mapping myhome.local:8000 to myhome.local/jellyfin.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Generally speaking, a subdomain like jellyfin.myhome.com will work out much better than a subpath like myhome.com/jellyfin.

Very few web apps can deal well (or at all) with being used under a subpath.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Using reverse proxies is common enough now that quite a few apps can deal with subpaths, and for the ones that can't you can generally get nginx to rewrite the paths for you to make things work.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alright, have fun with that. 🙂

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I am, no worries.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Well, whatever works. Your example wouldn't need a reverse-proxy.