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Ah I see. I think I read somewhere that using your own cert requires you to add it to each device that will access said service, which for me is a bit of a deal breaker. I don't think the rest of the family would be too thrilled; I have to make my projects somewhat transparent to them XD
I use a real domain name, but only have them available internally (and use WireGuard to access them when out and about). You can use letsencrypt with them then because you can validate through DNS.
I see. I have a valid domain as well that I could use, which would make things easier. I guess after I set things up, I can lock down Nginx/ my home lab again, and the certs would still work. My biggest worry was exposing my internal systems to the world.
Yeah. I don't expose anything other than the WireGuard port.
You can validate the wildcard certificate at your registrar, so you don't need to open anything up to the world.
Would you need to leave Nginx "online" after setting up the certs? I have mine so that it can't reach out at all.
I have a couple domains as well, but was hoping to not rely on anything external for this setup. I'll think about it. Would definitely make adding SSL a lot easier.