I posted an edit to the post on how I i solved it. Your feedback was helpful in the solution!

I think so. One issue i ran in to is that trying to go anywhere would land on the ui page. If I put npm on ports 80/443, then the UI needs to be elsewhere so I can access it. It shouldn’t be too hard, I hope

Hmm, i may have to get my admin ui’s off of ports 80/443 and port forward with NPM on those ports instead. The reason I was using nginx on the router was so the server could keep the UI on the normal ports and Nginx elsewhere.

I think then I could remove the router Nginx entries and add the DNS rewrite

There’s an idea. I may play with it tomorrow.bill be back on the road, so I’m not keen on doing too much when I can’t fix it haha. But right now the router is DNS, so when I did traceroute there was only one stop. But it was the SSL termination that got me. I might be able to download the stream module for Nginx. I think if I wanted to be optimal I may have to totally restructure that part…

Edit: thank you for the feedback, you’ve given me something to think about

You got me on to something. It looks like Nginx can be configured for tls passthrough https://serversforhackers.com/c/tcp-load-balancing-with-nginx-ssl-pass-thru

I think you might be right on that. I was originally not wanting to do any port forwarding on the router, but I may have to

So even if I remove the SSL cert lines from the router Nginx config, it seems to be applying the router’s SSL certificate. I commented out some lines to use a certificate for my root domain, but I’d rather NPM handle that, which doesn’t seem to be happening.

I just got cactus comments working on my writefreely blog. Cactus comments needs matrix, so I got matrix with element set up. It was an incredibly frustrating journey of learning, but it turns out the final bit wasn’t too complicated. I’m running on TruNas, which I hear you shouldn’t do, but it’s too late haha.

I also got the whatsapp bridge set up, but it doesn’t look like matrix supports disappearing messages, so I left some rooms it created b/c one of the larger groups easily took up a gig of storage before disappearing messages was turned on.

Anyway, writefreely has federated cactus comments that you can currently only sign in with a matrix account lol. I can try and change that later. I host the photos with picsur.

I think that I need to collect my notes and memories and put it into a blog post, but I don’t really want to turn my blog (if I even keep up with it) into a blog about how to self host a blog.

In hindsight, I don’t think the comments were worth it, but whatever.

I have it hooked up to nextcloud and get a UI for documents in there. There’s an area in the settings there where you can point it to collabora. I haven’t used it outside of that, but it does have a UI. It’s not on the root url though. I forget where it is, but you may be able to find what that is.

I think this would be a better approach. Mine is likely temporary. I have a better approach like this one in my backlog to figure out

So an issue i had was that I’d try to mount folders to this image but they wouldn’t show up, but when I tried mounting it to a different image, it did. I’m not sure what I did wrong here, but I worked at it for a while and I’m still new to TruNas. But at least with this image, I don’t mind too much about updates and it’s an easy change that I can do again. Thanks for the feedback though, I’ll be keeping this in mind and try to do things in a more “correct” manner 🙂

thanks, I may have to do a bit more work for it than I’d like.

I use one for travel abroad and wireguard/open vpn connections. I just set up another at home as a server and I’m thinking of setting up tail scale and maybe getting some services running. They’re good devices.