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I created a short tutorial on using sub domains to access services hosted within my home network, thought I would share it here in case anyone finds it useful

This is the first time I've made a technical tutorial so apologise if there are mistakes/its confusing, feedback will be appreciated

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[–] essell@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you learn that about my jellyfin by looking at my post history or connecting to my server? πŸ˜€

It'd struggle a bit on some setups, like when I'm using the Jellyfin app on my GFs smart TV.. Or explaining to a friend in Europe how to setup a VPN without breaking anything else on his network... It is a risk for sure.

I'm too tired right now to parse what you mean about the port forwarding. I guess the idea is to reduce the impact if Jellyfin were breached or exploited. If you're up for it, can you explain more about why that relates to port forwarding?

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you ran nginx as a non privileged user it wouldn't be able to bind to 80/443 as those are privileged ports. So you would need to use iptables to forward them to an unprivlaged port

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Ah, gotcha! Thanks.

I feel like that information could have multiple implications in future. Thank you!