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How do I make my immich available publicly? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I have self hosted immich on Debian on my homelab. I have also setup tailscale to be able to access it outside my home.

Sometime ago, I was able to purchase a domain of my choice from GoDaddy. While I am used to hosting stuff on Linux, I've never exposed it for access publicly. I want to do that now.

Is it something I can do within tailscale or do I need to setup something like cloudflare? What should I be searching for to learn and implement? What precautions to take? I would like to keep the tailscale thing too.

PS: I would like to host immich as a subdomain like photos.mydomain.com.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'd recommend a web proxy service. It acts as a middleman, public > router > port forward to proxy / tailscale > proxy forwards by the domainto the correct service (immich).

Traefic is a good starter one.The most used but more advanced is probably nginx.

For SSL, use https://letsencrypt.org/, there are a bunch of tools to do it and some are automated. They expire faster but are free. Tailscale is a vpn tunnel so the ssl part may not be correct and they may have their own thing though.

Also godaddy is like the worst, expensive, ceo has hunted animals that shouadn't be touched, and I always had outages when dealing with them. Namecheap is good, cloudflare, and porkbun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Thanks, I'll figure the best way out based on the responses.

And lol, I did not know about goDaddy being this bad since this was the first time I purchased a domain. Is it possible to move domains from one provider to another or do I have to wait for it to expire and then register on the other provider?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can transfer at any tine and keep the remaining registration time. The only negative is you have to pay the new regristrar a rnewal fee to complete the trasnfer, this adds nore time to your domain, you just would have to pay it early once. They often do deals for transfers especially around holidays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you, I'll work it out based on what you've told me.