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Good resources for setting up a domain name to a local Caddy instance (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been using Linux for decades, I've worked as a software engineer/architect/sre for around a decade, but networking has always been my biggest gap in knowledge.

I have a local server, I have caddy spun up, a glinet router running their version of openwrt, and I have a domain name purchased through porkbun.

I am looking to setup "local.domain.com" to point to my local server, ideally without exposing it publicly, and enable devices on my home network to be able to access it from that url. Id also like to be able to access containers running on that server by something like "searxng.local.domain.com" or "local.domain.com/searxng" aka without using the port suffix. Id also like to enable https.

I have read so many guides that have fragments of what I need, but nothing that ties enough together to get it working. And with all the options around different domain registers, let's encrypt, reverse proxies, etc, im struggling just a bit.

Are their any guides (prefer text over YouTube, but beggars cant be choosers) that people recommend that encompass the whole process, instead of just pieces? Id like to understand it instead of just fumble through it.

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[–] petrichornetrainfall@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

So right now im kind of doing option 1, but .local (I'll switch to .internal) and not using * ( which I will change and see if it let's me use the subdomains I configured in caddy that werent working before)

Option 2 it what I considered switching too, I have adguard running on my router, but was testing option 1 when I decided that I might want to skip ahead to something more advanced. I really dont want to have to install certs on each device to get past the warning for https.

Option 3 is on my backlog, I have a vps I planned on setting up pangolin on later down the road after I got some of my services spun up, but maybe I should take care of that now instead.

Option 4 is something I briefly looked into before realizing its way over my head, and im also pretty risk adverse.

Sumarry: so maybe option 3, and possible option 2 if its still needed when on my local network without having a client running.