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I'd be interested in how you did this, this seems like one of the best ways I've seen for securing a lemmy instance.
One easy way to do that is to set up something like Nginx as a reverse proxy in front and forward
/api
clean, but forward everything else with basic auth.The steps broadly would be:
/
to your Lemmy instance/api
and other endpoints you want public, like previously with/
And you're done.
In a nutshell, that's pretty much what I did.
I have a single Nginx container that handles reverse proxying of all my selfhosted services, and I break every service out into its own configuration file, and use
include
directives to share common configuration across them. For anyone out there with Nginx experience, my Lemmy configuration file should make it fairly clear in terms of how I handle what I described above:It's definitely in need of some clean-up (for instance, there's no need for multiple location blocks that do the same thing for caching, a single expression can handle all of the ones with identical configuration to reduce the number of lines required), but I've been a bit lazy to clean things up. However it should serve as a good example and communicate the general idea of what I'm doing.