Hi,

I want to make some of my services (like Nextcloud, Immich, Komga, Jellyfin and FreshRSS for example) on my home server easier accessible from remote. For that I want to use a VPS where I install Nginx and Wireguard on it and establish a VPN connection between it and my homeserver. So far so good.

My first question: For the services that I don’t want to expose for remote access over that setup, can I just keep my Nginx instance that I have running now for these services. For example my budgeting service is available under finance.example.com as long as I’m in the same network as my home server right now. Would that still be possible when I have 2 Nginx instances running (one on the VPS and one on the home server directly) or would I need to configure it differently for that to work?

My second question:
Do I need to install Fail2Ban on my VPS or can I also install it on my homeserver?

  • blurry@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I had a similar setup for years with traefik instead of nginx and I would recommend you to not over engineer your setup. If you only want to expose some specific services and for the others you only allow access in your LAN you can create an ACL for the restricted services based on a whitelist with your IP-Range. With that way your setup will be much easier, not so many SSL specific stuff (Which certificate do you need on which machine? Do you pass through the TCP connect or open the SSL connection and use insecure connection over your VPN?..), not so much DNS stuff, because you can redirect every subdomain to your server. You only need one fail2ban setup.

    And you can access any device from your VPN in your LAN.