this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
212 points (98.2% liked)

Selfhosted

45411 readers
523 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I already host multiple services via caddy as my reverse proxy. Jellyfin, I am worried about authentication. How do you secure it?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

So i’ve been trying to set this up this exact thing for the past few weeks - tried all manner of different Nginx/Tailscale/VPS/Traefik/Wireguard/Authelia combos, but to no avail

I was lost in the maze

However, I realised that it was literally as simple as setting up a CloudFlare Tunnel on my particular local network I wanted exposed (in my case, the Docker network that runs the JellyFin container) and then linking that domain/ip:port within CloudFlare’s Zero Trust dashboard

Cloudflare then proxies all requests to your public domain/route to your locally hosted service, all without exposing your private IP, all without exposing any ports on your router, and everything is encrypted with HTTPS by default

And you can even set up what looks like pretty robust authentication (2FA, limited to only certain emails, etc) for your tunnel

Not sure what your use case is, but as mine is shared with only me and my partner, this worked like a charm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Pay attention to your email, when cloudflare decides to warn you for this (they will, it's very very much against TOS) they'll send you an email, if you don't remove the tunnel ASAP, your entire account will be terminated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I'm pretty sure that using Jellyfin over Cloudflare tunnels is against their TOS, just FYI. I'm trying to figure out an alternative myself right now because of that.