Is it considered bad practice to expose selfhosted services on public internet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by OmltCat@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I see a lot of people here uses some form of remote access tool (VPN/Tailscale) to access their home network when not at home. I can’t really do this because my phone (iOS) can only activate one VPN profile at a time, and I often need this for other stuff.

So I chose to expose most web based services on the public internet, behind Authelia. But I don’t know how safe this is.

What I’m really unsure are things like Vaultwarden: while the web interface is protected by Authelia (even use 2FA), its API address needs to be bypassed for direct access, otherwise the mobile APP won’t work. It feels like this is negative everything I’ve done so far.

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[-] SomethingBurger@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I believe you can configure your phone to only route traffic to your server though the VPN.

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

Nice! ... how exactly, I wanna know :)

[-] Bdking158@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago

I'm my case, I'm using the OpenVPN server on my router. When I set it up, there was an option for the client to only use the VPN for local traffic. That way it's part of the config file on my phone. Works flawlessly

this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023

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