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Beginners Questions about Audiobookshelf, DNS and nginx (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey all, I'm relatively new to the selfhosting game the most I've done to date is own and maintain a plex server for the last few years, but that mainly handles all of the networking for me so I'd say it doesn't really count.

Recently, due in part to the ongoing controversy with audibles royalty and streaming model I've decided to try my hand at setting up an Audiobookshelf server of my own. For reference I'm running on a machine with Ubuntu 20.04. Ive managed to get Audiobookshelf and nginx running through docker and accessible via the localhost:port, but now I feel like I'm missing some key understandings.

I assume I need to have a domain name through a DNS service like cloudflare in order to make use of it, but I'm not sure what to do after that and the documentation that I have read doesn't outright answer my questions.

Once I have my DNS setup, how do I associate it with my server or point it through the nginx reverse proxy?

I know I'll have to setup a .conf file for nginx at some point and I found the example .conf in the audiobookshelf documentation, but I just feel like I'm missing the step between getting a domain name and establishing the reverse proxy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A stack is a group of containers that were all started together via a docker-compose.yml file. You can name the stack and have all of the containers dropped down below it. Compose is simply a straightforward way to ensure your containers all boot with the same parameters each time.

Instead of needing to remember all of the various arguments for each container, you simply note them in the compose file and run that. Docker Compose reads the file and runs the containers with the various arguments.

Moving from docker to docker-compose is the single largest ease-of-use change I made in my setup. If you want some help in how to use it, I can post a quick example and some instructions on setting it up. You would use cd [directory with your docker-compose.yml] to select the proper directory, then docker-compose up -d to run the compose file.

Updating would be docker-compose down to stop the stack, docker-compose pull to pull updated images, docker-compose up -d to start your stack again, then docker image prune -f to delete the old (now outdated and unused) images.