You might find a cleaner sample in Alien: Isolation.
Thank you again for the response. The summary is very helpful too.
It looks like I don’t need the reverse proxy, since the sensitive services* support authentication and HTTPS.
I would need the lighttpd service to be available over unsecured HTTP too, but if that’s not possible I could always use a different subdomain.
- A small music and film library
“The Chinese spying” - As opposed to the American spying?
That is such a clear explanation and makes a lot of sense, thank you again.
Since the services I’m interested in serving are authenticated then it sounds like HTTPS is what I need (which is what originally made the most sense to me). That’s a relief. I just need to figure out how to have separate HTTP and HTTPS services hosted from the one ARM service.
Thanks! Is the point of reverse-proxying your public-facing services to make them private?
I have a general idea. I appreciate the info :). I’ve made a point of having nothing sensitive in the contents or the requests (I don’t have any forms, for example. It’s all static pages).
Thank you for the very informative reply.
The HTTP and Gemini services are for vintage clients, but I would like the reverse proxy to keep my media collection private (and maybe SSH and SMB too). So I’m serving to modern clients in the case of reverse proxy. I was told that port forwarding is no longer considered secure enough and that if my media gets publicly exposed I could be liable for damages to license holders.
Linux running HTTP and Gemini servers. This is fine from home using port forwarding and afraid.org’s dynamic DNS.
They’re lightweight sites that exist to be accessed by vintage computers which aren’t powerful enough to run SSL.
That’s reassuring. Thanks, I was struggling with the concept and where to start but I should be fine now since I’m handy enough with a terminal.
I’m interested! I don’t use music or voices for notifications but if you have any sounds from the various computers, devices and equipment I’d be very interested.