Https for your Apps

How to get https for selfhosted apps on a homelab or VPS.

Proxies

I started with NPM, but understood that there are few alternatives to get https into your selfhosted services.

See this example on how one service (Multichat), can be deployed with Https with any of the 3 Proxies.

Traefik

Sample Selfhosted Apps with Traefik support out of the box:

1. Dokploy
2. Claper PPTs
3. The MultiChat: which works with traefik/nginx as per these configs

If the DNS is set properly, these will work:

#nslookup gibme.duckdns.org
nslookup https://jalcocertech.com

If the DNS Challenge worked with the Cloudflare API token, these will work:

curl -I https://jalcocertech.com
echo | openssl s_client -servername jalcocertech.com -connect jalcocertech.com:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates

This blog was inspiring and here you have a Traefik x Groq working sample with the PhiData Fork

Whats great about Traefik, is that you can provide HTTPs to other services, just by adding label into their docker-compose.yml:

And all of that happens programatically, plus we wont have conflict of using the same ports, as the host wont be seeing them!

Caddy

I tried to close 2024 with a post about selfhosting AI apps with Caddy.

Sample SelfHosted Apps with Caddy support out of the box:

NGINX

NGINX can be used together with Authelia, which provides potentially, an authentication layer.

Example project working with NGINX Proxy Manager:

Behind a NAT

Initially, it was all about cloudflared, but lately you will also hear about:

1. Pangolin
3. Cloudflare Tunnels

Cloudflare Tunnels

How to expose Apps safely, through your domain, with https and without exposing your home public IP.

That was a blocker for long to me.

Until I discovered Cloudflared tunnels.

And saw a practical example to expose a selfhosted app with cf.

• https://one.dash.cloudflare.com

docker network connect cloudflared_tunnel portainer #your_docker_container_to_expose  #network (tunnel) - service