A reverse proxy still needs “forwarded ports in some capacity”
Nitpicking and very specific case - but it is not necessarily true if you use a VPS. I have a wireguard tunnel in pfsense where I configure my VPS as a peer and all communication between VPS and home happens over that tunnel. Doesn’t require me to open any ports in my home. This also lets me have two layers of access control - through allowed ip in wireguard config and through interface firewall rules in pfsense.
eshol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was along the lines of, “How do you reach your apps/services outside your LAN?” I doubt anyone forwarding 443 for their proxy selected ‘forwarded ports’, but now you have my second guessing myself…
nfms@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I understood as you explained here. Before I started using a proxy manager and a public domain I would have to forward the ports on my router for each service I wanted to access over the LAN (inside/outside).