Hey all, I’m relatively new to the selfhosting game the most I’ve done to date is own and maintain a plex server for the last few years, but that mainly handles all of the networking for me so I’d say it doesn’t really count.

Recently, due in part to the ongoing controversy with audibles royalty and streaming model I’ve decided to try my hand at setting up an Audiobookshelf server of my own. For reference I’m running on a machine with Ubuntu 20.04. Ive managed to get Audiobookshelf and nginx running through docker and accessible via the localhost:port, but now I feel like I’m missing some key understandings.

I assume I need to have a domain name through a DNS service like cloudflare in order to make use of it, but I’m not sure what to do after that and the documentation that I have read doesn’t outright answer my questions.

Once I have my DNS setup, how do I associate it with my server or point it through the nginx reverse proxy?

I know I’ll have to setup a .conf file for nginx at some point and I found the example .conf in the audiobookshelf documentation, but I just feel like I’m missing the step between getting a domain name and establishing the reverse proxy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

  • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    You get a domain name, and use an A record to point it towards your server’s public IP address.

    You tell nginx to forward requests to a given domain. For instance, you could tell nginx to forward requests to foo.bar.com to 127.0.0.1:1337. To do this:

    http {
    server {
        server_name foo.bar.com;
        listen 80;
        
        location / {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1337$request_uri;
        }
    }
}

    Note that this is a very basic setup that doesn’t have HTTPS or anything. If you want an SSL certificate, look into Let’s Encrypt and Certbot.

    Also, the service you’re hosting (which I’m not familiar with) may have an example reverse proxy config you should use as a starting point if it exists.

    • TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Ive got a reverse proxy config that was available in the Audiobookshelf github documentation, I was mainly struggling to understand how to get all of the parts working together. Thanks for the help