I have an openwrt router at home which also acts as my home server. It’s running a bunch of services using docker (Jellyfin, Nextcloud, etc.)

I have set up an SSH tunnel between my openwrt router and VPS and can access jellyfin successfully.

I understand that I need to set up a reverse proxy to access multiple services and have https.

But I’m confused if I should set up this reverse proxy on the VPS or on the router itself. Is nginx the easiest option? Should i add subdomains in cloudflare for every service?

Pease don’t recommend vpns since they are all blocked where i live (wireguard, tailscale openVPN, etc.) I’m limited to using ssh tunneling only.

Thanks

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    Check all the steps individually then:

    • check that the ip resolves to the VPS IP at the location you’re testing this
    • set up the tunnel to bypass the proxy (connect it directly to jellyfin)
    • check that jellyfin works directly
    • check the proxy directly, with curl connected to the proxy with the header “Host” set to the domain
    • check that the VPS firewall didn’t block port 80
    • normally you wouldn’t be able to forward port 80 with a normal ssh user but I see you’re logging in as root so it should be working