I spent all day today trying to get the routing to work correctly between Tailscale, Nginx and Adguard.

Basically I wanted to be able to be able to use **http://immich.network ** to route to 192.168.1.2:9000

I wanted to share the steps I took so people don’t have to go through what I did.

First a few things Local Server IP: 192.168.1.2

  1. I installed Ngnix and Adguard, in a Docker Containers, and gave Adguard IPs 3000, 3001 instead of 80 and 443 because Ngnix took it.
  2. I went to my router and made it use the DNS: 192.168.1.2
  3. I configured Proxy Host in Ngnix … immich.network => 192.168.1.2:9000
  4. I configured DNS rewrite in Adguard … *.network => 192.168.1.2

At this point I was able to use http://immich.network finally. I installed Tailscale to be able to access when I’m outside but http://immich.network didn’t work.

These helped me https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets + https://tailscale.com/kb/1054/dns?q=global+nameserver

  1. I created a subnet… tailscale up --advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24
  2. I approved it on Tailscale login

At this point I was able to access home server using its local IP 192.168.1.2 but I couldn’t get http://immich.network to work.

  1. I created a nameserver dns with split DNS but I used my local ip… 192.168.1.2 => network

Finally everything is working… I have a feeling that I’m doing it wrong but I’m too tired and it’s finally working.

  • LifeBandit666English
    5•7 months ago

    You can get pretty cheap domain names if you google around. I managed to get mine for £35 for a number of years (3 I think, I was high when I set it up) and got a .com name out of that.

    You could look into DuckDNS. I know I used them many moons ago for Home Assistant but can’t quite remember what the capabilities were, I just remember it was free and a bit rubbish. But as a stopgap it works.

    Try that for a bit until you have a few quid spare, then get yourself a domain name paid for a while.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•7 months ago

      I used dynv6.com to get a free subdomain e. g. [name].dynv6.net and then a swag docker to do the reverse proxy subfolder->dockerport matching. Trafic in my home network is http and the swag ports are the only one exposed to the public. When I find the time I’ll do in depth setup guide including the ipv6 setup problems.

        • LifeBandit666English
          0•7 months ago

          Have a look into Heimdall or Homarr. Much easier, don’t need to worry about addresses at all. Single set up and add Tailscale exit node for external access.

          I’ve been fiddling with it again today and (using Homarr) my only services that don’t work when I access through Tailscale are the ones I use names for (are.local, server.local, etc) and I can access them when I use the IP:port so when I get home I’ll just change them to IP:port on Homarr and I’ll be all good

          • @[email protected]OPEnglish
            1•7 months ago

            Yea I’m using Homarr, I’ve just finished setting everything up. The only problem I have right now is that I can’t access Syncthing GUI through the domain.