My Homelab Setup
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My Homelab Setup
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#2Neat!
> Right now, accessing my apps requires typing in the IP address of my machine (or Tailscale address) together with the app’s port number.
You might try running Nginx as an application, and configure it as a reverse proxy to the other apps. In your router config you can setup foo.home and bar.home to point to the Nginx IP address. And then the Nginx config tells it to redirect foo.home to IP:8080 and bar.home to IP:9090. That's not a thorough explanation but I'm sure you can plug this into an LLM and it'll spell it out for you.
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#3Neat! > Right now, accessing my apps requires typing in the IP address of my machine (or Tailscale address) together with the app’s port number. You might try running Nginx as an application, and configure it as a reverse proxy to the other apps. In your router config you can setup foo.home and bar.home to point to the Nginx IP address. And then the Nginx config tells it to redirect foo.home to IP:8080 and bar.home t…
Caddy is increasingly popular these days too. I use both and cannot decide which I prefer.
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#4Why are you using restic, when TrueNAS offers native solutions to backup your data elsewhere?
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#5This is extremely light - not a bad setup, but I mean.. it's like 1% of typical Homelabs.
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#6Neat! > Right now, accessing my apps requires typing in the IP address of my machine (or Tailscale address) together with the app’s port number. You might try running Nginx as an application, and configure it as a reverse proxy to the other apps. In your router config you can setup foo.home and bar.home to point to the Nginx IP address. And then the Nginx config tells it to redirect foo.home to IP:8080 and bar.home t…
IME androids dont respect static routes published by the router. I guess self hosting DNS might be more robust but I usually just settle for bookmarking the ip:port
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#7Neat! > Right now, accessing my apps requires typing in the IP address of my machine (or Tailscale address) together with the app’s port number. You might try running Nginx as an application, and configure it as a reverse proxy to the other apps. In your router config you can setup foo.home and bar.home to point to the Nginx IP address. And then the Nginx config tells it to redirect foo.home to IP:8080 and bar.home t…
This (reverse proxy) is essentially what "tailscale serve" does.
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#8Neat! > Right now, accessing my apps requires typing in the IP address of my machine (or Tailscale address) together with the app’s port number. You might try running Nginx as an application, and configure it as a reverse proxy to the other apps. In your router config you can setup foo.home and bar.home to point to the Nginx IP address. And then the Nginx config tells it to redirect foo.home to IP:8080 and bar.home t…
Caddy is increasingly popular these days too. I use both and cannot decide which I prefer.
Caddy's configuration is so simple and straightforward, I love it. For sure a more comfortable experience for simple setups
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#9>Because all of my services share the same IP address, my password manager has trouble distinguishing which login to use for each one.
In Bitwarden they allow you to configure the matching algorithm, and switching from the default to "starts with" is what I do when I find that it is matching the wrong entries. So for this case just make sure that the URL for the service includes the port number and switch all items that are matching to "starts with". Though it does pop up a big scary "you probably didn't mean to do this" warning when you switch to "starts with"; would be nice to be able to turn that off.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caddy is increasingly popular these days too. I use both and cannot decide which I prefer.
Caddy's configuration is so simple and straightforward, I love it. For sure a more comfortable experience for simple setups
The pain I've had with it is distributed configuration, i.e. multiple projects that want to config rules. I've been using the JSON API rather than their DSL.
Do you know how I might approach this better?