Hi everybody.

How should I setup reverse proxy for my services? I’ve got things like jellyfin, immich a bitwarden running on my Debian server in docker. So should i install something like nginx for each of these also in docker? Or should I install it from repository and make configs for each of these docker services?

Btw I have no idea how to use something like nginx or caddy but i would still like to learn.

Also can you use nginx for multiple services on the same port like(443)?

  • ippocratis@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Ok I’m not any networking expert but I think you are overestimating the risk here.

    Opening a port doesn’t mean you are opening your whole home network just the specific services you want. And those not directly but with a web server in front of them . Web servers talked in this tgread that sit in front of open ports are well audited . I think that measures like mtls a generic web server hardening are more than ok to not ever be compromised.

    But yeah I’m surely interested to listen if you could elaborate.

    Thanks

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Opening a port doesn’t mean you are opening your whole home network just the specific services you want.

      until a new high severity vulnerability gets discovered and some bot exploits it on your server, taking it over. and you won’t even know. if they were a bit smart, you won’t notice it ever either.

      but there’s more! its not only the reverse proxy that can be exploited! over the past few years, jellyfin has patched a dozen vulnerabilities, some of which allowed execution of arbitrary system commands. one of the maintainers have expressed that nobody should be running those old versions anymore, because they are not safe even only on the LAN. and this was just jellyfin.