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submitted 7 months ago by jobbies@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm going round in circles on this one.

What I want to do is:

serve up my self-hosted apps with https (to local clients only - nothing over the open web)
address them as 'app.server.lan' or 'sever.lan/app'
preferably host whatever is needed in docker

I think this is achievable with a reverse proxy, some kind of DNS server and self-signed certs. I'm not a complete noob but my knowledge in this area is lacking. I've done a fair bit of research but I'm probably not using the right terminology or whatever.

Would anyone have a link to a good guide that covers this?

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[+] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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[–] philpo@feddit.org 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, then proceed with LE. Got that part mixed up, you are totally rjght.

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What advantages do you think the paid cert has over letsencrypt?

[–] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago

ZeroSSL has unpaid plans (for non wildcards) that have a few advantages that LE doesn't:

No Ratelimits,
A WebDashboard
More ways to validate
They have a RestAPI

And, first and foremost, they are European and it's always good tk have an alternative ready.

But as said before, I totally missed the wildcard issue, as I haven't touched these for a long time and recently had more to do with my public services (which get a ACME single domain cert via zeroSSL)

[–] TimeWalker@piefed.foxden.party 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As I understood, the one that you see on the page is something distinct. They have a different service on their ACME page. If you're using a script like acme.sh or using the ACMEIssuer in Caddy, then you can get a free wildcard certificate over that. But I assume it's losing the advantages that have been mentioned like the web dashboard, etc.

[–] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

Good to know! *-cert is definitely something I’d need to setup in my self host setup, though a little complex as my (free) domain provider does not let me edit TXT records for DNS-01.