I’m trying to host a few docker services from my house, but my IP appears to be blocking port 80, so the only way to get a domain working that I’ve found is domainname.com:portnumber (I have port forwarding set up in my router, and can reach a wide range of ports, but not 80).

It looks like cloudflare will point sites to my IP but not ports, and because I can’t reach port 80, I can’t figure a way to route things through NGINX proxy manager on the same box.

Is there a free external service I can use as a reverse proxy to point requests to specific ports on my self-hosted box? Or else, is there another way to make my sites useable without the enduser having to specify ports?

  • Archr@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    Since it sounds like this is your home router since you mentioned you use Comcast. If you are testing the site from within your network using your external ip then you are possibly running into a loop back block. Comcast does not allow traffic that originates from within your network back into your network.

    Try the ip/site from a Hotspot and that might work.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    Cloudflare tunnels are the thing you’re looking for, if you’re not opposed to cloudflare.

    You run the daemon on your local system, it connects to cloudflare, and presto, you’ve bypassed this entire mess.

    • nothingcorporateOP
      16·
      3 days ago

      SOLVED! I had to learn how Cloudflare tunnels work, but 45 minutes later and it’s doing exactly what I need, thank you so much, kind internet hero!

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 days ago

      For anyone who would prefer not to use Cloudflare, the solution is a free Oracle VPS, a Wireguard tunnel into your homework, and a reverse proxy on the VPS (Caddy is my personal preference).

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    91·
    3 days ago

    If you - like me - dont like to use large companies if you can avoid it, I suggest a proxy server. You open port 8089 or something on your router, (security bonus: accept only connections from proxy‘s ip,) install nginx proxy manager and reroute the domain in question to said ip and port.

    This probably works in many ways but thats the first that comes to my mind.

    Of course you can use cloudflare free tier afaik. But remember, if you dont pay for it, you‘re the product.

    • sebb@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      Not an issue if one uses VPN for HTTPS traffic like in the blog post.

      But I guess similarly one should be mindful about the VPN traffic too. The cloud provider would technically be able to sniff unencrypted traffic - like HTTP.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    73·
    3 days ago

    Why do you need port 80 specifically? If it’s for your own use, you can run http on any port. And you should be using https on 443 if at all possible anyway.

  • nothingcorporateOP
    2·
    3 days ago

    Note: The ISP is Comcast, who at various points on the web has claimed to block and NOT block :80, but lots of other people online seem to have the same problem, indicating that they do. At least for some people.

    • smpl@discuss.tchncs.de
      51·
      3 days ago

      First thing I would ask the ISP to open the port. I’ve done that without problems before.

      If that’s for some reason not a solution, I would, because I’m personally not very attracted to the idea of routing my selfhosting traffic though thirdparties, setup a simple static page with <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://web.domain.tld:8080/" />, somewhere and point the bare domain and www subdomain to that page and have it redirect to, like in this example, a web subdomain with the port number.

      As a last remark, I personally would not find it problematic for a different port number to be part of the host scheme and also note that most web traffic now goes to 443 and not 80 because it’s https.

      Happy selfhosting!

    • adhocfungus@midwest.social
      4·
      3 days ago

      Rural and suburban areas often only get one ISP in the US. Comcast specifically is infamous for using scummy practices to get (and then legally enforce) local monopolies. So the odds are not in OPs favor.

      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
        144·
        3 days ago

        The OP mentions he uses Comcast, which is an American ISP. I myself live in ‘socialist’ Europe and I can choose from 13 different ISP on fiber alone. Surely OP who lives in ‘free-market’ USA must have an unimaginable number of options.