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Single webserver for multiple service webinterfaces (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Annual-Advisor-7916@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hi all, I'm rather new to the whole selfhosting stuff and only have limited experience (ran everything on my Raspberry). Now I've finally a real server I can use and I'm currently planning what I want to host.

There will be multiple service which have an web interface, like portainer, wireguard, nhost and so on and then there will be my personal developer portfolio website. Everything dockerized.

Say I have the domain "domain.com" which should point at my website. The other services either run on different ports, say domain.com:1234 or with different paths like domain.com/service. Both isn't great. I could either use a reverse proxy which redirects to subdomains or use virtualhosts. Both should work imo (any thoughts on what to use?). Now that every ports other than 80, 443 and 22 are closed things should be somewhat safe. Anyways, I'm a bit concerned about having tens of webservers for each service, how can I be sure that all of them are safe and up to date?

That leads to my question: could I use a single webserver for all the service webinterfaces? And if so, how would I configure that?

Thanks!

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[–] dazchad@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure I understand the multiple web servers issue. If you forward your wan port to a web server in your network, only that one web server will be exposed. Unless you are mistakenly forwarding the other ports (eg 1234) as well?

In any case the way to go is reverse proxy. Mine have both subdomains and subpath, and they work perfectly together