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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ZetaZebra on 2025-02-07 02:59:58+00:00.
I've posted a couple of times here in recent weeks discussing the beginnings of my self-hosting journey. Every time I think I finally get it, I get lost again. I can't figure out how to expose my apps to the outside network, I know apparently need to open docker containers to each other for things to work. It's so complicated. Hope I find the patience to give this more of my time.
Truenas is up and running. Dockge, FileBrowser and some other apps are running. It all works locally. I got a domain on porkbun and have the wildcard A record in porkbun's DNS set to my public IP. That seems to be figured out.
That's where the good ends and the wtf begins. I'm a tech-oriented person but really feeling dumb.
- Put in my public IP and 443:443 in port forwarding on my router settings and it refuses to save
- Trying to set up reverse proxy and getting confused what domain name is what domain name and that's different from a nameserver. Where do I put my public IP vs. local. Who knows?
- DNS is so confusing. Using Technitium. Do I set up an A record for each app. So app.porkbundomain.xxx or does that live only in the reverse proxy? Do I need other type of records?
Seen vidoes on people using Cname to direct one domain to another and I don't think I need that but doesn't seem like something I need.
If anyone still has the patience to try to explain to silly ole me, I'll appreciate the help. I keep thinking I finally get...and then I'm lost again.