Just exposed Immich via a remote and reverse proxy using Caddy and tailscale tunnel. I’m securing Immich using OAuth.

I don’t have very nerdy friends so not many people appreciate this.

  • stetech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Do the private IPs not change at all? Or can you handle that automatically?

    I have next to no experience, but I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t work for me since my IP changes? Idk

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Most routers have a feature to assign static IPs to a specific MAC address. You can also tell most devices to try to take a specific IP instead of using DHCP.

      There are multiple ways to set it up, but it’s very possible to set a specific device to always have the same local IP, which is usually the first step to many self-hosting scenarios.

    • valkyre09@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      You can either set a DHCP reservation in your router, or manually set the IP on the device.

      When I say private IP, I’m referring to the internal IP e.g 192.168.1.X

      Means internally I just go to the domain without having to remember the IP I set.

      • stetech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Oooh. That makes more sense, thank you.

        I somehow thought you’d meant your global IP addresses, lol

    • starshipwinepineapple@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Edit: i see now they’re talking about private IP, but in case you want to learn about getting a static IP for other things…

      Many ISPs will give you a dynamic (changing) IP rather than a static (unchanging) IP. Just check your IP once a week for a few weeks to see if it changes.

      There are some services that get around this by checking your ip regularly and updating their records automatically. This is called a dynamic DNS provider (DDNS). I used to use “noip” but since then there are quite a few like cloudflare DDNS.

      Beyond that you just would want to make sure your router or whatever device is assigning IPs on your network to give a static assignment to the server. Assigning IPs is handled by a DHCP server and it would usually be your router, but if you have a pihole you might be using that as a DHCP server instead.

      Between DDNS and DHCP you can make sure both your external IP and internal IP are static.