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Is there anyone that would be interest in doing a video call with me to show me how all this cloudflare/nginx/authentication works? I can pay (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 days ago by philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone

Last week I bought a domain with the intention of connecting it to my NAS so I can access my apps over the internet without tailscale (plus give access to a few family members on jellyfin). I did it through clourflare.

I was very naïve but I had no ideal of the sheer amount of learning it would require to achieve the things I'm looking to do (just basic access with some additional authentication). So far I've managed to publish my immich server (behind a authentication screen) but largely still very confused about how its actually working. And very confused about setting up external auth and using reverse proxy. Honestly feeling quite defeated.

I've posted here in the selfhosted Lemmy and you guys have been really helpful but I think I could really benefit from someone showing me and explaining how it works. I have already learnt a lot from last week but the more I learn the more questions I have.

I've taught myself home networking, I knew nothing about it before I built a NAS, but with this I just want to be sure I'm doing it right.

I can pay you. Not heaps but hopefully enough for 20-30 minutes of your time. Not trying to rip anyone off here haha

Thanks for all your continued advice on this

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[–] gigglez@social.gigglez.net 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

@artyom I think part of it is that it *is* easy.... when you're working on your own setup, that you built, and know all the components of, and know all the long term goals of, that was built over years piece-at-a-time...

Get anyone who acts like it's easy to work on someone's setup that isn't their own, and they'll quickly remember how complicated it all is.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Get anyone who acts like it’s easy to work on someone’s setup that isn’t their own, and they’ll quickly remember how complicated it all is.

I would agree with this and the sentiments above. If I am on my system, I know how I have it set up. I can reference pages of notes if I do forget how I did something. I am more familiar with my server and services. When it comes to someone else's set up, I can tell you how I did it, and that it works for me. You've got to kind of adapt it to your scenario. I can understand how that would be frustrating for someone starting out, as with Linux, there seems to be a thousand ways to do one thing.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

It has nothing to do with whose setup it is and everything to do with an immense amount of specialized knowledge that requires, at the very least, months to even begin to understand to the extent that you can deploy your own server.