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Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

121 points · 30 comments · renehsz

  1. superkuh · · focus · HN ↗
    I forward port 80/443 on my router to port 80/443 on my home LAN nginx webserver and point my domain name to my home IPv4. Then I put files in directories. It works great and has worked great for a couple decades. While the number of static nginx vulnerabilities that have come out since AI became good at coding has increased I still haven't run into one that applies to my simple static nginx setup. All this tunneling and secrecy and credentials is... well, it applies to some cases and I don't want to dismiss those. But it really doesn't apply to most human person's use cases. Just host a normal server on your home IPv4. There's nothing to break.
    1. jagged-chisel · · focus · HN ↗
      ISP ToS become an issue. Certainly depends on how rabidly one’s ISP enforces the rule …
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