Can i make DietPi-Dashboard public available?

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I have a question:
I installed DietPi-Dashboard on my system and want access to it also from remote over my personal domain i bought.

Are there any security related questions about that?
Is it generally advisable making that public available?

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reverse proxy with authelia?

cloudflare zero trust reverse proxy?

never put a webpage w/o a login open directly to the internet

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Yes, i know that i never put a website without a login to the internet.
DietPi-Dashboard has a password feature, so is that enough?

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nope, you should enable SSL as well within /opt/dietpi-dashboard/config.toml

Bit this would require SSL certificates to be generated first

# TLS for HTTPS
# - Default: false
#tls = false
#cert = "/path/to/cert"
#key = "/path/to/key"
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Thanks for the replies.

I anyway decided to use webmin for remote server maintenance. This is also working very well.
The service is now available via a subdomain of my personal domain and i also got a let’s encrypt certificate as for the other services (Nextcloud, …) i host on my own.
Also activated 2FA on webmin.

So i assume that is also as secure as the Dietpi-Dashboard.

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Another question:

I have hosted all my services on different subdomains. But i do not host anything on my base domain und when i open my base domain (without any subdomain) in a browser, the nginx welcome page is displayed.

Is that good practice?

I mean, nobody but just me and my family is using my services and i don’t need a “homepage” for myself.

How can i automatically reroute from my base domain to a subdomain?

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Maybe this could give a hint url rewriting - nginx rewrite rules from main domain to subdomain - Stack Overflow

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Done.

Thank you for yout help!

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