How to Setup a Reverse Proxy on Home Network

Thank you :)

For anyone who struggles with nginx, I would recommend using things like chatgpt or whatever. It saved my life just putting the error there and getting actual code to fix it 😅

Wow this actually helped me resolve my issue. Thank you for explaining this in simple terms.

Thank you for this! Great walkthrough/tutorial in a step-by-step way.

how fast of computer do I need? I have an old XP machine I was hoping to use.

Hi! Im recently getting into nginx, found out that nginx supported reverse proxy so im now giving it a try

Thanks so much for this video, everything is so useful and easy to understand

If i may clarify, so if i understood correct, the "server_name" key in the config file doesnt define a domain server name, but essentially tells the nginx server that "this server block is for the specified server address"

But the domain name itself still has to be defined in a dns server like pihole because nginx itself doesnt define any domain names right?

Please for the love og God rename this video to LINUX

Question. nginx makes it so easy, but I don't want to install another server. Can you make a video that shows how to do it with Apache? Everything I've tried from google/serverfault simply doesn't work. :(

I skipped some of the video so maybe I missed it but how do I make dns quires go from my dns server to nginx and then back to the client

couldnt for the life of me get pihole to work... my browser continually says theres a dns error despite pihole being updated and restarted.

Glad I randomly found this video. Probably the best tutorial I’ve seen all month and believe me I’ve watched too many to try to get everything running. Cheers.

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The 'squiggly bracket" is called a 'curly brace'. Good video though.

Also Thank You for the Video Guide.

Every thing is well explained. For Font size to be visible I had to use bootaddam

Sir Can Guide Me How To Setup Reverse Proxy On Server-B With Nginx And Redirect To Server-A

I Am Currently Doing That Via aaPanel But Its Not Stable.

Please Guide Me With Another Way.

Thanks

I am surprised to see that how complete your video is even you mentioned that you don't know much of the configs. They all fit nicely in the flow and are very understandable. Great job.

OMG!!! This video is SOLID-EFFING-GOLD!! I have literally watched 100 other videos that were c-r-a-p examples....this is the first one that actually worked! and did not make me feel stupid for not understanding this stuff....awesome work Toasty!!!!

why you not do it in unraid! darn would have loved that

Your video is a great contribution to all of us who need these computer tools, but we are not programmers or coders. Very clear and explanatory within a simple and informative language. I encourage you to make another video (as a second part) for the use of the reverse proxy for other services or servers, along with the use of SSL Let’s Encrypt certificates. Thanks a lot.

am i the only one who noticed this dude sounds so much like Casually Explained lol

Where is mentions documents root path
I have to node

Great Tutorial! Can mobile devices resolve this kind of domain?

Try nginx proxy manager ( docker ) ...saves you ton of your time

The best tutorial in this topic I've seen

Nice job explaining in layman's terms, I appreciate the work you put into this. No need to really explain the inner workings it is good for them to research it on their own to learn. Again Good Job on the video, thanks.

Thank a lot!

Would this method work with a steam dedicated server?

ty ty

I'm extremely new to reverse proxy, what that means is know nothing at all about how it works. Or at least I didn't till I saw the beginning of your video. That explained it so well! Thank you for that! But once you started explaining how to set it up, you completely lost me :( can anyone else point me to a more dumbed down version on setting up a reverse proxy. I am not able to find anything on the internet on how to do that. All the tutorials get extremely confusing after about step 2.

thnQ thnQ thnQ thnQ. finally, someone can speak detailes

..............# Port 80 redirect to 443
server{
listen 443;
server_name myserver.domain;.............
should be listening to port 80 in the description.

can I reverse proxy any website on my domain?

Thank you for the information brother but I'm facing a small issue that only js and CSS is not loading in my reverse proxy. It would be a great help if you can help me.

thanks man

Hi, I have an Asus router running ddwrt on wifi client mode attached to a router that I do not have access to the port forwarding settings. I'm trying to get openvpn to connect to the external ip but, I don't have the ability to port forward on the other router which is the isp modem/router arris cable modem becuase, I don't own the the Arris modem. Can a reverse proxy be the solution to this problem? If it isn't can you point me in the right direction?

Thank you! :-)

Thank you for the video @Toasty_answers,
Are you using different devices/servers for each application (UNMS, Unifi)? I see different IP addresses for UNMS and Unifi...
can they be installed in the same server and just use different ports ?

Nice guide 👍