Help request for Reverse proxy setup with HTTPS to build a server for multiple services Topic is solved

[LeVraiRoiDHyrule]

Hi,

I am now using Dietpi on my Raspberry Pi 4 for more than a year, for all kind of server software. Some are only on my LAN, some are available for friends and family outside my network.

I would like to upgrade that and I think a reverse proxy would be the best thing to set up. It would allow me to only forward 1 port, and to make all that safer with SSL and HTTPS.

But I am struggling a lot to find good guides or help for what I would like to achieve. I would like to ask here if you have ressources, step by step guides, or availability to help me a bit for this. Any help is appreciated.

Here is what I would like to set up behind my reverse proxy :

- Jellyfin server
- jfa-go server (for Jellyfin account management) https://github.com/hrfee/jfa-go
- Transmission torrent server (used both from remote app and web UI)
- Ombi server (requests for Jellyfin files)
- Minecraft Server (Paperclip, from there https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi ... p-service/ )
- PiVPN, my private Wireguard server

I already have a dynamic DNS at ChangeIP.com.

All these things are currently installed on my Raspberry, and works great by entering [dyndns]:port

My goal is to have all this now accessible with [dyndns]/jellyfin ; [dyndns]/transmission and so on....

A bonus thing, but it's really not an obligation, would be to have a landing page when connecting to [dyndns] only, that acts like an homepage with tiles to the main services.

Do you have tips or guides on how to begin this ?
Thanks in advance for any answer. I know this is a very complicated subject but I don't know where to begin.
Have a great day !

[Joulinar]

Hi,

at least 2 ports you would need to forward on your router (80 + 443)

I don't have a real guide but I guess there are quite some out on the web. Best option would be using Nginx as revers proxy. Some applicatons like Jellyfin offer own configs this https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/nginx.html

Next to this, a VPN server you should not handle via revers proxy. their you still need to forward vpn port

[LeVraiRoiDHyrule]

Thanks for your quick answer.

I will try with Nginx. But maybe there is other reverse proxy softwares that could be easier for newbies ?

Thanks for your explations with the VPN, I won't put it behind the reverse proxy.

[Joulinar]

well you could have a look to HAProxy https://dietpi.com/docs/software/advanc ... g/#haproxy
But it might be complicated to setup.

An easy to click solution would be Nginx Proxy Manager. This is a solution based on Docker. Quite a heavy solution with database aso, but nice easy gui https://nginxproxymanager.com/

[LeVraiRoiDHyrule]

Thanks, Nginx proxy manager looks very interesting.

But I'm not using Docker yet, so I'm hesitating to use it. That represents a big thing. Because using it for 1 app only is a bit useless, so I guess I should move everything to Docker container formats. Not sure if this would be useful. I'll look into it.

[Joulinar]

yes indeed that's a downside as it require Docker. However there is no need to migrate all stuff.

as well you could have a look on this https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issu ... -756783571

[LeVraiRoiDHyrule]

Thanks.

I'll look into Portainer, your post on github let me think that it's better for a newbie like me to begin with Portainer to avoid errors with Docker and Nginx.

[Joulinar]

You could play with it on a VM to get some experience on how it behave before installation on your live system

[LeVraiRoiDHyrule]

Hi again,

It looks like I can't install portainer.

I tried running the script twice, as the script requests it. But at its second run I always run into this issue :

DietPi-Software
│ - Command: docker rm --force
│ - Exit code: 1
│ - DietPi version: v6.34.3 (MichaIng/master) | HW_MODEL: 4 | HW_ARCH: 2 | DISTRO: 5
│ - Image creator: DietPi Core Team
│ - Pre-image: Raspbian Lite
│ - Error log:
│ Container name cannot be empty


I'm on a clean install, nothing else is installed. I don't know what to try. Could you help me please ?
Thanks in advance for your help.

[Joulinar]

Where did you get the information to run a script twice?