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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Alright, have fun with that. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I am, no worries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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