I’m a noob to self-hosting, I have set up some containers but only through watching tutorials on youtube, in reality I barely understand what I’m doing.
I have a wireguard docker container set up, but when I connect to it with my phone, there’s no internet.
Can somebody tell me what I’m doing wrong? I just want to access my server outside my home network.
Unless you have a real need to use a container, you shouldn’t be running networking anything in a container. It will always perform better closer to the OS without abstractions.
That being said, it sounds like you have an exit-node problem. You can connect, but unless you set split-tunneling on your phone, you have no exit node to provide connectivity. Wireguard is not a traditional VPN in that just connecting to it gives you egress access.
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Unless you have a real need to use a container, you shouldn’t be running networking anything in a container. It will always perform better closer to the OS without abstractions.
That being said, it sounds like you have an exit-node problem. You can connect, but unless you set split-tunneling on your phone, you have no exit node to provide connectivity. Wireguard is not a traditional VPN in that just connecting to it gives you egress access.