The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

Post by glaslong » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

Post by KnightHawk3 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

glaslong wrote: post #21

I literally just sent some friends a docker image and told them to point Luna at it, for which they were set up in ~20minutes and $3 of tokens, so I'm skeptical. My homelab is also currently ~40 nix service VM's plus a handful of Ubuntu, etc long tail, and some external DO droplets for NAT, and a more robust vlan config than I'd ever been able to put time towards before... which I haven't had to do more than a dozen…

Post by marcosdumay » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #3

How many of these problems PHP solves out of the box or makes irrelevant?

Post by smw » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

smashed wrote: post #17

I can relate to the TLS termination issue. It is difficult to provide a self hosted version of a web app with a sensible TLS setup. The best is almost not to do it at all. Just have a docker image serve http/1.1 and document that a reverse proxy is required to expose the service. There are simply too many ways to do it and every sys admin/hobbyist has their own preferred way. For the anonymous and authenticated cachi…

Post by smw » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

AussieWog93 wrote: post #11

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #4

This is only tangentially related, but I have a love-hate relationship with Immich. Love for everything, but loads of hate for the bug-o-feature that disallows sharing of albums if the website is not hosted over HTTPS. I can fiddle with the page content in Developer Tools to make it work, but frankly, WTF, especially since Immich expects people to set up a reverse proxy for HTTPS access on their own and does not help…

Honestly, this is a problem that has been solved by LLMs. Just point Claude Code to the server over SSH and say "We need Immich to be served over HTTPS". You could theoretically upstream the fixed compose.yaml if you felt like it, but the project seemed unusually hostile towards the one fix I tried to upstream.

  photos.example.com {
          reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080 {
                  header_up X-Real-IP {remote_host}
          }
  }