I have a few things that I host from my house. I have read that it’s better practice to route stuff through a VPS to not expose your home IP.
Here’s what I’ve done so far: VPN setup on VPS with successful routing of containers. Confirmed by using a CLI IP check within the container which returned the VPS IP. I used PiVPN because I know it and it’s easy to set up.
Where I got stuck: I pointed Nginx to the supposed IP:port of the connection, but couldn’t get it to load.
What should I do next?
The goal is to route the services through the VPN and point Nginx to them… but it doesn’t work.
Right. How are you routing traffic from nginx?
For the services already hosted by the VPS, I just point service.web.site to the appropriate localhost:port.
My hiccup is that the VPN software (pivpn) gives me an internal IP for the clients but pointing Nginx to that IP doesn’t work.