How are y’all managing internal network certificates?
At any point in time, I have between 2-10 services, often running on a network behind an nginx reverse proxy, with some variation in certificates, none ideal. Here’s what I’ve done in the past:
setup a CLI CA using openssl
somewhat works, but importing CAs into phones was a hassle.
self sign single cert per service
works, very kludgy, very easy
expose http port only on lo interface for sensitive services (e.g. pihole admin), ssh local tunnel when needed
I see easy-RSA seems to be more user friendly these days, but haven’t tried it yet.
I’m tempted to try this setup for my local LAN facing (as exposed to tunnel only, such as pihole) services:
Get letsencrypt cert for single public DNS domain (e.g. lan.mydomain.org)… not sure about wildcard cert.
use letsencrypt on nginx reverse proxy, expose various services as suburls (e.g. lan.mydomain.org/nextcloud)
Curious what y’all do and if I’m missing anything basic.
I have no intention of exposing these outside my local network, and prefer as less client side changes as possible.
It is primarily a http server, its ability to act as a http reverse proxy is a product of that. Apache can do the same thing, its just less common to see it used that way.
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It is primarily a http server, its ability to act as a http reverse proxy is a product of that. Apache can do the same thing, its just less common to see it used that way.
Oh alright, thank you!