Another +1 for reverse proxy to do this. Caddy is a good option. I am a fan of Nginx Proxy Manager myself. I have a domain name and in the DNS servers I redirect to the local IP of my host server. This way my website or subdomains can only be accessed if someone is connected to my home network.
After you do this, you need to know the port you exposed the web server on (e.g: 127.0.0.1:9090 ), then go into your proxy manager and make a rule where 'mydomain.com/service’ points to this. However, I prefer to use sub-domains like ‘service.mydomain.com’. The only downside of a reverse proxy is that setting up services that use CORS can be quite fiddly to set up.
edit: I ported my domain to Cloudflare dns servers since it’s easy to create an SSL wildcard certificate to force https on my sites. No ports are exposed outside of the local network so it’s relatively safe.
Another +1 for reverse proxy to do this. Caddy is a good option. I am a fan of Nginx Proxy Manager myself. I have a domain name and in the DNS servers I redirect to the local IP of my host server. This way my website or subdomains can only be accessed if someone is connected to my home network.
After you do this, you need to know the port you exposed the web server on (e.g: 127.0.0.1:9090 ), then go into your proxy manager and make a rule where 'mydomain.com/service’ points to this. However, I prefer to use sub-domains like ‘service.mydomain.com’. The only downside of a reverse proxy is that setting up services that use CORS can be quite fiddly to set up.
edit: I ported my domain to Cloudflare dns servers since it’s easy to create an SSL wildcard certificate to force https on my sites. No ports are exposed outside of the local network so it’s relatively safe.