Custom domain for homepage (gethomepage.dev) ?
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craveness · 2023-11-05 18:22

I would like to access my homepage using an internal DNS name. It's
hosted on a debian based container. Has anyone been able to do this?
Or, are there any guides out there?

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p3ab0dy · 2023-11-05 18:34

Setup up DNS to point gethomepage.dev to your internal ip.
Some routers support this or use another DNS like bind, unbound,
pihole,  ….

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craveness · 2023-11-05 18:43

Not what I meant. I have homepage, this project: [https://github.com/g
ethomepage/homepage](https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage) and can
access it over [http://192.168.1.10:3000](http://192.168.1.10:3000)
but want to configure it so it can be accessed with my internal
domain, like
[http://internal.mydomain.net](http://internal.mydomain.net). I did
create an A record on my DNS server and looks like it loads.

Not sure why it wasn't working before.

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Anejey · 2023-11-05 22:47

Ideally what you'd do is use a reverse proxy (nginx, caddy,...) and
create an entry that points a domain to the ip:port. Then you'd add
the domain in whatever DNS server you got that points to the reverse
proxy IP. You can't have a DNS entry point to an IP with a port.

Example:

* Reverse proxy: **homepage.domain.com -> 192.168.1.10:3000**

Now let's say the reverse proxy is at **192.168.1.20**

* DNS server: **homepage.domain.com -> 192.168.1.20**

You'll get a ton of guides on this if you google it.

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[deleted] · 2023-11-06 10:52

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craveness · 2023-11-08 01:53

Thank you. I think this is the right way, will investigate