I’m trying to self host my portfolio on an old laptop running Ubuntu server. I’ve successfully set up docker and nginx. I got a DNS subdomain from freedns.afraid.org.

The IP connected to the DNS matches my server’s public IP address.

I can connect with https://mypublicip/ from outside the network, but it shows as an insecure connection and the https has lines going through it in the browser.

Any attempts to connect to the website via DNS have failed, and trying to connect via IP on port 80 fails as well. I really have no clue what is going on, let me know if you need more information, or if this is the wrong place to ask for help with this sort of thing.

Edit: Whatever problem I had before, it seems its been fixed. However my subdomain is being blocked by ISPs. Thank you for the help everyone, I’ll probably have to do cloudflare tunneling instead of fully self-hosting it.

  • Bort@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I suggest you check out pangolin. For me it’s worth about $12/year to not have a domain pointing directly at my home network, but instead have a layer of privacy and security. Running geofilter and crowdsec is really nice. Sometimes my logs show more than one blocked connection attempt per second. Another option if you want a free service is cloudflared tunneling.

    • dr_robotBones@reddthat.comOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I did it this way because I didn’t think a randomly generated domain name from cloudflare would be professional enough. I might have to go with that if I can’t get this working though.