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

submitted 2 months 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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[–] S_S@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago

Yes you definitely can, first you either got to have a DNS resolver or change the systems hosts files so they can lookup the dns address correctly

If the dns address "pterodactyl.example.com" points at the machine directly you still have to use the port of the pterodactyl dashboard You can also get a reverse proxy listening on port 443 (if you wan to use https, which I assume is the goal) on that machine or another machine which proxies the name "pterodactyl.example.com" to the right port

The next part is to get a certificate, you can either create a self-signed root CA and install the root cert on each system, or you have to get it with an ACME client using a dns-01 challange (since "pterodactyl.example.com" is not resolvable from the outside)

Then put the certificate either on the pterodactyl dashboard itself or the reverse proxy, there are also several reverse proxies that can fetch and reload the cert automatically, for example Caddy can do this with dns plugins

If you want I can help you with the configuration, I've done much of the same thing already