Intranet domains and certificate issues
reddit / selfhosted

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Due_Faith976 · 2023-10-08 22:15

Prefix, I am so new to self hosting and trying to do my own research
but I keep hitting roadblocks.

I have several home lab services running. Some that I make public
through cloud flare tunnels and some I want to keep private.

I have proxmox running on my servers and I want the proxmox admin page
to be a local url I can visit that’s https.

In my head I would use pihole to point the domain (I want to try
home.server) to nginx reverse proxy manager. Nginx would then send it
to the correct ip and would have a certificate for it.

The issue is I haven’t been able to get nginx to grab a certificate
from let’s encrypt for the url. The other issue is that I haven’t
gotten the the url to work through nginx I can do it directly to the
service with pihole but then I need to enter the port number which I
want to avoid.

What can I do to move this in the right direction? What am I missing?
Any resources I should read up on?

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AnnualOasis · 2023-10-08 22:22

I have two instances of NPM. One is public facing and uses cloudflare
certificates. The other is private facing and uses a let’s encrypt DNS
challenge for the certificates

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-08 22:25

> (I want to try home.server)

Please do not make up domains (TLDs) for your home network. Use what
is intended for it to avoid issues, for example `example.lan`
`example.privat` `example.home.arpa`

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Due_Faith976 · 2023-10-09 00:06

Wow this was really clear and helpful.

I used this post https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/kniuok/howto
_add_a_wildcard_certificate_in_nginx_proxy/

To help me as well. Thank you so much I finally have working urls for
home services now!

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-09 01:31

Good :)