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How to use a domain I own to self-host services? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm not really sure how to ask this because my knowledge is pretty limited. Any basic answers or links will be much appreciated.

I have a number of self hosted services on my home PC. I'd like to be able to access them safely over the public Internet. There are a couple of reasons for this. There is an online calendar scheduling service I would like to have access to my caldav/carddav setup. I'd also like to set up Nextcloud, which seems more or less require https. I am using http connections secured through Tailscale at the moment.

I own a domain through an old Squarespace account that I would like to use. I currently have zero knowledge or understanding of how to route my self hosted services through the domain that I own, or even if that's the correct way to set it up. Is there a guide that explains step by step for beginners how to access my home setup through the domain that I own? Should I move the domain from Squarespace to another provider that is better equipped for this type of setup?

Is this a bad idea for someone without much experience in networking in general?

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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Caddy with caddyfile is very easy although it lacks a gui. Use nginx proxy manager if you want a gui, but it is more work than a caddyfile.

https://caddyserver.com/docs/quick-starts/caddyfile

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Seconding Caddy -- It's as close to it gets for "Just works". It handles all the certs, it's easy to refresh and add a subdomain instantly, handles wildcard domains, and the config file is dead simple to understand.

You can use https://xcaddy.tech/ to build Caddy with various plugins, I use mine with transform-encoder so that logs can be made compatible with fail2ban.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I wish I would understand how to use xcaddy but I failed the last two times setting it up 😅 it was something about another language (go?) that was needed iirc

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://caddyserver.com/download

Use this if xcaddy is too much.

Select your platform, then just click the little boxes next to the modules you want included, then hit the download button

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I will test that ASAP!! that looks great, thank you!

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

it lacks a gui

I've never used this, but I wandered across it about a month ago: https://github.com/qdm12/caddy-ui

If you search for 'caddy ui' there are a number of them. I don't really see a need for a caddy ui, but some might.