So I’ve got a couple of services that I access using mydomain.org:1234 for example, but since Nextcloud runs its own web server it’s hosted on mydomain.org/nextcloud.
How do I set up my services so I can access them from a friendly URI like Nextcloud instead of ports?
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Okay so TLDR I’ll need to set up a reverse proxy. Thanks folks!
I would suggest using Caddy. I think it’s a little simpler than Traefik and can automatically handle LetsEncrypt SSL/TLS certificates for you
Reverse proxy maybe?
mydomain.org/nextcloud gets reverse-proxied to mydomain.org:1234 and will appear as the former.
Yep this is the way. What OP wants can’t be done with DNS.
if you are using docker/podman you can use e.g traefik reverse proxy.
if you don’t use docker you Have to move those Services behind an apache/nginx/haproxy reverse proxy.
Depends on how your infra is setup but if you’re using a reverse proxy you can do it fairly easily. This example is assuming cloudflare as its what I use.
Go into cloudflare -> dns then add cname records for your services. The cname record should be service.mydomain.com. Then all you gotta do is tell your proxy what that cname points to. Gonna be honest, been using truenas scale for a while and it does it differently that straight docker which I assume you’re using so I probably wont be much more help but it should at least get you started. If you aren’t using a reverse proxy, you should definitely start. Look up Traefik.
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You want a reverse proxy. But if nextcould is already reserving ports 80/443 you need a bit more configuration as it’s not possible for multiple processes to use the same port.
Setup a reverse proxy and configure it to redirect yourdomain.org/nextcloud (or nextcloud.yourdomain.org) to a custom port that you’re now running Nextcloud on. Then configure some-random-service which you want at yourdomain.org/some-random-service to redirect to port 1234 and so on.
This means all incoming connections on port 80 and 443 now will be handled by your reverse proxy and depending on the requested URL, the reverse proxy will fetch the desired website contents from the origin web server. I personally use nginx but there exists other good reverse proxies you can use.
