Hello everyone. Need some opinions here. Does it worth all the trouble to make things like jellyfin and immich run with HTTPS for services that are only accesible in the LAN? I ask it 'cause, as far as I know, there is no way to put a valid certificate like let’s encrypt for a service that is not accessible from the net and I don’t plan to buy a certificate for myself. But I have some trouble with the rest of my family having issue with their browsers complaining about the lack of https every time a browser is updated. So, what would be the best solution?
Let’s encrypt doesn’t have to be accessible from the web, it accesses the web itself. It’s a subtly difference i guess, but you don’t need port forwarding or anything. Of course if your jellyfin/immich service is completely blocked from going out on the internet then it still won’t work.
I don’t think that’s true. But Let’s encrypt does need to verify the domain name. If it’s just a domain you made up in your LAN that is an issue yes. But I have no experience with that though.
You could use self-signed certificates, they are free. but you would need to add custom trusted CA to all the user devices manually. I’ve never done this myself so no clue how troublesome this really is.
What I do is have a reverse proxy that requests a wildcard certificate (e.g ‘*.example.com’) with Let’s encrypt. And then route all my services through the reverse proxy with subdomains. You can get free domains with duckdns.org or others.