ELI5 resources for publishing self hosted services
So, couple years ago i started to learn about tech, programming and self hosting services thanks to redditors ( not reddit the evil corp ), and found lots of communities where they pointed me to good resources but then ended up allocating more time to learning programming to switch career into that field and finally got it.
As a passion and private needs I had set up couple of small servers for testing, but never ended up being able to actually expose them publicly in a secure way
I found some "beginner level" tutorials, but to be honest, it still was quite hard to understand.
Where can I found even lower level resources or any chat group or discord group for literal illeterates like me??
I know i can do my own research as I did for programming, but that was for landing an actual job, this is mostly for personal need, so i really cannot allocate much time into studying so much while I also have family duties and improving my coding skill for the current job
I know I like tech stuff and I know i can get passionate and raise my skills on my own, but I could not find any good "beginner level" resource that didn't step from a simple nice to get drawing of how things should be, to a complex mixmatch of services and settings that leaves me in doubt of what do i have to do in my instance....
Thanks for the link, i'll check it out as i get back home...
Since you are on the same journey and know about any group chat or communities that are noob approachable, i'm all ears
reddit's r/homelab and r/selfhost were my go-tos, but Spez decided to kill the golden goose, so I left. I've been trying to help the Kbin and Lemmy communities grow, but we'll see how it goes…
Oh! Also Tildes! It's been established for a while but the user base isn't huge since it's still in beta. LMK if you'd like an invite.
DNS includes wildcard support, so I can easily use anything.mydomain.net
After briefly trying out a couple of somewhat ingrated Caddy projects others have done, I decided they were too specific to their set-ups and did not make my life easier. I tossed them out and went simple. I wanted something super easy to understand, and thus easy to troubleshoot.
First I set it up in Docker. I created a really, really simple docker compose file:
version: "3.7"
services:
caddy:
image: caddy:alpine
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "1080:80" # Because Synology DSM reserves 80 for itself
- "10443:443" # Because Synology DSM reserves 443 for itself
- "10443:443/udp" # Because Synology DSM reserves 443 for itself
volumes:
# next four lines are default
# - $PWD/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
# - $PWD/site:/srv
# - caddy_data:/data
# - caddy_config:/config
- /var/docker/caddy/config/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
- /var/web:/srv # serve this by default?
- /var/docker/caddy/data:/data
- /var/docker/caddy/config:/config
volumes:
data:
external: true
config:
external: true```
(If the machine you are running Caddy on doesn't reserve ports 80 and 443 for itself like Synology DSM does, you don't need the ridiculous high ports I mapped. Just do 80:80 and 443:443.)
Then I created a simple Caddyfile.
web.fakeme.net, www.fakeme.net {
# This connects to the default Synology web service
reverse_proxy 192.168.2.15:80
}```
This tells Caddy: When you get a request for web or www, send it to the machine at 192.168.2.15 using port 80.
Then I added to it, one service at a time to make sure things worked at each step
paperless.fakeme.net {
reverse_proxy 192.168.2.15:8008
}
whoami.fakeme.net {
reverse_proxy 192.168.2.15:8009
}
comics.fakeme.net {
reverse_proxy 192.168.2.15:8010
}
plex.fakeme.net {
reverse_proxy 192.168.2.15:32400
}
speedtest.fakeme.net {
reverse_proxy 192.168.2.15:8011
}```
You'll note I am doing _nothing_ fancy here – no hostnames, no dynamic Docker container checks, none of that crap. It's brittle but it is dead simple.
Now that I have something simple working, I can get fancier if I feel like it.
wow, thanks for all the help!! Man, i misssed this kind of community feel for the last like...4 years.
I just woke up and saw this comment, as i get back from work i'll test it.
Yesterday I've tried making nginx proxy manager and cloudflare work, since I had already tried them couple of times, but still, i get to the same point and can't really figure out why I either get "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site." or " Web server is down Error code 521 "
read the documentation you listed
dug around the official docs setting up and getting informed beforehand
I read about testing to the staging letsencrypt api, but then forgot to add that
ran the container, it failed to get ssl certificates, but it blocked me in less than 20 seconds
I then changed some configs, since i was testing different ways of how it might work, but even after switching to the staging api for letsencrypt, i still receive logs saying it is refused and on timeout
ERR ts=1688509895.6641216 logger=tls.obtain msg=will retry error=[nextcloud.mysite.com] Obtain: [nextcloud.mysite.com] solving challenge: nextcloud.mysite.com: [nextcloud.mysite.com] authorization failed: HTTP 400 urn:ietf:params:acme:error:dns - DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for nextcloud.mysite.com - check that a DNS record exists for this domain; DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up AAAA for nextcloud.mysite.com - check that a DNS record exists for this domain (ca=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory) attempt=2 retrying_in=120 elapsed=66.535909489 max_duration=2592000
ERR ts=1688509906.5700405 logger=tls.obtain msg=unable to unlock identifier=sp.mysite.com lock_key=issue_cert_sp.27082019.xyz error=remove /data/caddy/locks/issue_cert_sp.mysite.com.lock: no such file or director