Home server accessing through tailscale and domain
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Kaziopu123 · 2023-12-05 17:10

Hi. I'm currently running jellyfin, navidrome, uptime kuma using
docker and accessing them through domain+caddy.

I was thinking about tailscale. Tailscale provides an ip address
starts with 10.x.x.x for my machine. My thought process is to use this
ip with domain's A record and then generate ssl using caddy. Can I do
that? Is it safe security wise? If it's possible then I don't have to
use my public ip/wan ip with domain to generate ssl. I need your
suggestions.

Let me know if it's not appropriate in this subreddit, I'll delete it.

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dcabines · 2023-12-05 17:35

That is exactly [what I do](https://i.imgur.com/dei0M2e.png). I don't
have any ports open on my router so as long as you can't get onto my
tailnet you can't reach my server. I use subdomains and a wildcard
cert so my services are all served with https. The root domain is
pointed to a cloud server hosting a small public website, so I keep my
home services under the home subdomain, like
https://service.home.mydomain.com

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sadhgurukilledmywife · 2023-12-05 17:48

What is that dashboard?

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dcabines · 2023-12-05 17:49

It is called [Homepage](https://gethomepage.dev).

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Kaziopu123 · 2023-12-05 17:54

OK. One last thing, my jellyfin server is using my friends also. So
they need to be connected to tailscale to watch content, right?

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sadhgurukilledmywife · 2023-12-05 17:57

Thanks!

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dcabines · 2023-12-05 18:12

Yes. Take a look at [Tailscale's sharing
article](https://tailscale.com/kb/1084/sharing/). It'll tell you how
to share something on your tailnet with a friend without making it
publicly accessible.

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Kaziopu123 · 2023-12-05 18:14

thank you

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Kaziopu123 · 2023-12-05 18:47

Thanks again bro. It works like a charm 🙏