Comment on issues setting up nginx as an https proxy
darkan15@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoDo yourself a favor and use the default ports for HTTP(80), HTTPS(443) or DNS(53)
That way, you can do URLs like app1.home.internal and app2.home.internal without having to add ports on anything outside the reverse proxy.
You could run only one DNS on the laptop connected to Router A (External, connected to internet), and point the domain to Router B (Internal, Connected to Router A, has a WAN IP of 192.168.0.y and Internal IP of 10.0.0.1), redirect for example the domain home.internal or home.lan (recommend better home.internal as it is the intended one to use by convention), to the 192.168.0.y IP, and it will redirect all devices to the server by port forwarding.
If Router B has Port Forwarding of Ports 80 and 443 to the Server 10.0.0.114 all the request are going to reach, no matter the LAN they are from. The devices connected to router A will reach the server thanks to port forwarding, and the devices on Router B can reach anything connected to Router A Network 192.168.0.*, they will make an extra hop but still reach.
Both routers would have to point the primary DNS to the Laptop IP 192.168.0.x (should be a static IP), and secondary to either Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 or Google 8.8.8.8.
That setup would be dependent on having the laptop or another device always turned ON and connected to Router A network to have that DNS working, you could run a second DNS on the server for only the 10.0.0.* LAN, but that would not be reachable from Router A or the Laptop, or any device on that outer LAN, only for devices directly connected to Router B, and the only change would be to change the primary DNS on Router B to the Server IP 10.0.0.114 to use that secondary DNS.
Lots of information, be sure to read slowly and separate steps to handle them one by one, but this should be the final setup, considering the information you have given.
You should be able to setup the certificates and the reverse proxy using subdomains without much trouble, only using IP:PORT on the reverse proxy.
brokenlcd@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I think I’ll do this with one modification. I’ll make nginx serve the landing page with the subdomains when computers from router A try to access. ( by telling nginx to serve the page with the subdomains when contacted by 10.0.0.1) while I’ll serve another landing page that bypasses the proxy, by giving the direct 10.0.0.* IP of the server with the port, for computers inside router B .
Mostly since the Ethernet between router a and b is old. And limits transfers to 10Mbps. So I’d be handicapping computers inside router B by looping back. Especially since everything inside router B is supposed to be safe. And they’ll be the ones transferring most of the data to it.
Thanks for the breakdown. It genuinely helped in understanding the Daedalus-worthy path the connections need to take. I’ll update the post with my final solution and config once I make it work.
darkan15@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you decide on doing the secondary DNS on the server on
Router Bnetwork, there is no need to loop back, as the secondary DNS will maintain domain lookup and the requests on10.0.0.xall internal toRouter Bnetwork.You can still decide to put rules on the reverse proxy if the origin IP is from 192.168.0.x if you see the need to differentiate traffic.
brokenlcd@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
I think I didn’t explain myself the right way.
Computers from inside of
Router Bwill access the server via it’s IP. Nginx will only serve an HTML file with the links. Basically acting as a bookmark page for the IP:port combos. While anything fromRouter Awill receive a landing page that has the domain name, that will be resolved by pihole, exposed to the machines onRouter A as an open port onrouter b`So basically the DNS will only be used on machines from
Router A, and the rules on nginx are just to give links to the reverse proxy if the machine is fromrouter A(I.e. the connection is coming from 10.0.0.1 from the server’s POV), or the page with the raw IP of the server+ port of the service.router A is Unfortunately junk from my ISP, and it doesn’t allow me to change the DNS. So I’ll just addRouter B` ( and thus, the pihole instance that’s on the server) as a primary dns, and an external one as a secondary DNS as fallback.Wouldn’t this link to the
192.168.0.yaddress ofrouter Bpass throughrouter A, and loop back torouter B, routing through the slower cable? Or is the router smart enough to realize he’s just talking to itself and just cut out `router A from the traffic?darkan15@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
On your first part, clarifying your intent, I think that you are overcomplicating yourself by expecting traffic to come to the server via domain name (pass through proxy) from
Router Anetwork and byIP:PortfromRouter Bnetwork, you can access all, from anywhere through domains and subdomains, and avoid using numbers.If you can’t set up a DNS directly on
Router A, you can set it per device you would want to access the server through port forwarding ofRouter B, meaning setting the laptop to use itself as primary DNS and as secondary use external, and any other device you would want in that LAN do the same, It is a bit tedious to do per device instead but still possible.No, the request would stop on
Router B, and maintain all traffic, on the 10.0.0.* network it would not change subnets, or anything.Remember that all my advice so far is so you don’t use any IP or Port anywhere, and your experience is seamless on any device using domains, and subdomains, the only place where you would need to put IP or ports, is on the reverse proxy itself, to tell anything reaching it, where the specific app/service is, as those would need to be running on different ports but be reached through the reverse proxy on defaults 80 or 443, so that you don’t have to put numbers anywhere.