I’m going round in circles on this one.
What I want to do is:
- serve up my self-hosted apps with https (to local clients only - nothing over the open web)
- address them as ‘app.server.lan’ or ‘sever.lan/app’
- preferably host whatever is needed in docker
I think this is achievable with a reverse proxy, some kind of DNS server and self-signed certs. I’m not a complete noob but my knowledge in this area is lacking. I’ve done a fair bit of research but I’m probably not using the right terminology or whatever.
Would anyone have a link to a good guide that covers this?
I think you could achieve this with largely the same method as typical when using Nginx, Caddy, etc.
The main difference is that where you’d usually use ACME/Let’s Encrypt - you’ll likely need to generate your own certs using a took like mkcert. You’ll need to get the CA cert used to generate the SSL certs and install it on any other systems/browsers that will be accessing the apps over https (mkcert will install them for the system you generate from).