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  • My MD players still play but no longer record. I can’t find anyone in my country to repair / replace the record head.

  • Thank you again for the response. The summary is very helpful too.

    It looks like I don’t need the reverse proxy, since the sensitive services* support authentication and HTTPS.

    I would need the lighttpd service to be available over unsecured HTTP too, but if that’s not possible I could always use a different subdomain.

    • A small music and film library
  • “The Chinese spying” - As opposed to the American spying?

  • That is such a clear explanation and makes a lot of sense, thank you again.

    Since the services I’m interested in serving are authenticated then it sounds like HTTPS is what I need (which is what originally made the most sense to me). That’s a relief. I just need to figure out how to have separate HTTP and HTTPS services hosted from the one ARM service.

  • Thanks! Is the point of reverse-proxying your public-facing services to make them private?

  • I have a general idea. I appreciate the info :). I’ve made a point of having nothing sensitive in the contents or the requests (I don’t have any forms, for example. It’s all static pages).

  • Thank you for the very informative reply.

    The HTTP and Gemini services are for vintage clients, but I would like the reverse proxy to keep my media collection private (and maybe SSH and SMB too). So I’m serving to modern clients in the case of reverse proxy. I was told that port forwarding is no longer considered secure enough and that if my media gets publicly exposed I could be liable for damages to license holders.

  • Linux running HTTP and Gemini servers. This is fine from home using port forwarding and afraid.org’s dynamic DNS.

  • They’re lightweight sites that exist to be accessed by vintage computers which aren’t powerful enough to run SSL.

  • That’s reassuring. Thanks, I was struggling with the concept and where to start but I should be fine now since I’m handy enough with a terminal.

  • Thanks, that’s a great explanation. I’m looking forward to being able to SSH in without port forwarding.

  • So those ports that I don’t put in the config remain publicly accessible? That would be perfect.

  • Thanks. You’re right about Navidrome supporting authentication. I’m using HTTP instead of HTTPS, though. I was advised to use a reverse proxy to avoid potential legal issues.

  • The standard is that everything gets captured by the proxy? I want to leave the HTTP and Gemini servers public. I also want those and SMB to remain accessible on the LAN.

  • Thank you so much. That clears up all my doubts. I’m running an ARM server ok the lan with port forwarding for HTTP (80) Gemini (1965) and SMB (not forwarded).

    I made a typo in my original question: I was afraid of taking the services offline, not online.

  • Thank you for having a conscience. I agree.

  • It’s one thing to tweak a browser that comes in kit form from Mozilla’s code. It’s another thing altogether to continue maintaining it if Firefox ever dies. I don’t know if any of these clones have the kind of teams needed to do all the work Mozilla have done for them.