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How do I access my services from outside? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by leaf_skeleton@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey all,

I'm setting up a homeserver and trying to figure out the best way to access it remotely. I've been looking at different solutions, but I’m a little stuck.

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP when I’m also trying to use a commercial VPN for privacy / to combat services fingerprinting me based on my IP.

I'm currently considering a reverse proxy setup with an authentication provider like authentik or authelia, but as far as I understand, that wouldn't work well with accessing services through an app on my mobile device (like for jellyfin music for example.) I did think about just opening up the ports and using a DDNS with a reverse proxy, but is'nt that like a big security risk?

Keep in mind I am no network admin, but I don’t have anything against learning if someone can point me in the right direction.

Also I heard some people say that on proxmox you should use unprivileged containers instead of vms for your services, does that hold up?

Any recommendations for tools or approaches?

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve been looking at VPNs, but it feels weird, to route everything through my home IP when I’m also trying to use a commercial VPN for privacy / to combat services fingerprinting me based on my IP.

My ASUS WRT router (running Merlin Firmware) forwards my Home WireGuard VPN server through one of my Proton VPN clients, I get all the added bonuses of being connected to my home network, utilizing my PiHole an such, while benefiting from appearing across the world.

I'm currently considering a reverse proxy setup with an authentication provider like authentik or authelia, but as far as I understand, that wouldn't work well with accessing services through an app on my mobile device (like for jellyfin music for example.)

This is correct, you cannot host an authentication service in front of Jellyfin’s proxy otherwise the Jellyfin Media Player will not connect to your server however, there is a Jellyfin SSO plugin for authentication which is what I use and I disabled the manual login form via CSS but be warned if you take this route that the CSS can be re-enabled on the login screen using your browsers element inspect, I wish you can disable it outright but it’s heavily baked into Jellyfin from what I’ve read.

I suggest setting up a IP-Blacklist for Jellyfin and only whitelisting the known IP’s.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but removing the login form via CSS is just a cosmetic effect and it doesn't have any effect on your security, since bots will try to brute force the login directly using the login endpoint.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh I am fully aware it just cosmetic, that’s why I added this line In my original comment:

but be warned if you take this route that the CSS can be re-enabled on the login screen using your browsers element inspect

hence why I also suggest just outright blacklisting all IP’s and only whitelisting the known few at the reverse proxy level.