I like the Fediverse b/c its more connected than our old forums of yesteryear, but without big tech breathing down out necks…

You know whats funny… while I have Apollo installed - I always used Reddit’s main app. :P LULZ - but I fully support them keeping their API open, as it has been for YEARS. I think they’re fully out of line.

LOL ; thank gosh I haven’t seen that, yet… I hope LemmyNet continues to be developed and takes advantage of Reddit’s ship jumpers.

Alright, I wanted to come back now that my setup is complete… special thanks to those of you who suggested nginx-proxy-manager - its very nicely put together and really makes reverse proxies a breeze…

Long story short, I just created a brand new VM… started with the proxy manager and built on top of that. Next up was my static Hugo website; it was too easy to point change Apache2’s ports.conf to 8097 instead of 80, and use nginx-proxy-manager for the SSL certs… that one was basically plug and play.

The Bitwarden bit was a bit more involved, but not too bad… at first I just redirected traffic to the original (other machine) Bitwarden VM - but no one wants an extra VM to backup and support… so I went with a fork Docker of bitwarden_rs/vaultmaster - it comes w/ e-mail setup in the container, so one less thing to worry about… I had to swap around some docker-compose.yml ports and just point nginx-proxy-manager at it… this time, tho, I used the SSL certs from the docker; I didn’t wanna dig in and remove what they already had running.

In the middle I was still fighting with myself and not taking ya’lls good suggestions - I tried to go the Cloudflared route; which is a cool service… but you can’t tunnel root domains unless you’re a paid user. Cloudflared tunnels would be great for exposing the Plex, TrueNAS, etc’s of the world… but I didn’t NEED/want subnets.

Thanks to the Beehaw community… TechHeart.life is up and running. :P (Don’t worry, the Bitwarden is on a private domain. Phhhbbbbtttt.)

Everyone here is awesome for ALL the replies. :P Thank you!!

I decided to try a Cloudflared tunnel, but that didn’t work out because I can’t get the main domain1.com domain to go thru the tunnel… only ‘apps’, like blog.domain1.com. :P

And, I’m still ironing out how to pass nginx to another local IP on my network; I just haven’t gotten it to click yet. All the info needed is right here - I promise to come back when I iron out the setup and post how I managed to do it…

I can figure out how to pass nginx [or apache2, for that matter] to another PORT on the same local IP - I think I have both domains listening on ports 80/443 - and I’ll have to change that in order to route the data correctly… let alone getting out to another local IP.

Again appreciate all the info - sometimes I just have to learn a bit more since I have all the documents right here. :P

Agreed - I don’t think I’ve been on a Tornado BBS software; but I still code in Mystic BBS’s PASCAL-like MPL language. :P

Heck yea, I am a retro enthusiast. I currently have a PiBoy DMG running emulation staion and a customized version of Raspberry Pi OS w/ joycon and buttons mapped to a mouse emulation - its a nice form factor for having a portable Linux-box in the field… I still get looks when I whip out a ‘gameboy’ to do some actual work. :P

I stick to mostly 8bit and 16bit platforms, so the Pi 4 is more than enough for me…

I also have a few retro computer setups; of course, a C=128 for all my Commodore needs - an Apple g4 basketball w/ MacOS 9 - an antique Philco Predicta television that runs both some Python script for random vintage videos, and can serve up PONG - I retrofitted an old PONG controller w/ a Pi Pico so it feels right.

I have a couple other machines that bring me back to the 486 MS-DOS days. :P

Nice to know theres other folks that are into this hobby - cheers!

LOL… it’ll be easy, I tell ya!

So I dove in this afternoon, thinking I had all the info I needed to easily get a setup w0rking… I changed my port forwards to the domain2.com machine - the one running apache2 on a webiste; leaving the bitwarden.domain1.com not seeing traffic. Then, I created a new virtual host file on the domain2.com machine;

cat bitwarden.domain1.com.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName bitwarden.domain1.com

    ProxyPass / http://10.0.0.155/ nocanon

    ProxyPassReverse / http://10.0.0.155/

    ServerAdmin paulie420@domain1.com

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =bitwarden.domain1.com

RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

</VirtualHost>

And ran certbot to get https certs - certification would only be on the domain2.com machine; all proxied data would be sent over http, but I figured that was OK as its just me accessing the domain1.com service.

BUT alas, the setup didn’t work; I have some suspicions… bitwarden is running inside a docker container, so… I dunno if that has something to do with how its listening, and its running nginx; what I thought was that apache2 would simply send all traffic from the bitwarden.domain1.com domain over to my local IP 10.0.0.155 machine and that machine would just pick it up simple pimple and display to the user going to that domain. Another thought - maybe its because Docker/Bitwarden HAS https in that container - ohhhh, thats a thought; however it still didn’t function correctly before I ran certbot on the domain2.com setup.

UGH… more to come - I’m trying options. :/ Grrrrrr. :P

PS; posting code in Lemmy doesn’t work so great, does it? I used a backtick but didn’t get the results I’m accustomed to…

Thanks so much for the reply; others have mentioned the same, or similar, but your response spelled it out… I knew this was what I needed to do [scenerio 2] but I just didn’t have experience with setting up the proxy - I’m technical enough to RTFM and will get this setup today; one thing that was kinda fudging me up was that my Bitwarden machine, where the domain currenty forwards to, runs in a docker container - so I think I’ll actually forward the OTHER domain to the ‘lemmy’ [although its not lemmy, just using your example as the reference…] machine that’s just an Ubuntu server running apache2 for serving the website - and I’ll probably end up using Apache’s Name Based Virtual Host Support instead of your nginx-proxy suggestion - either way, I think its accomplishing the same.

Appreciate your, and all the other, replies - this thread literally performed better than on the /r/ platform! I’m sold on LemmyNet!

Xibalba is actually the WHQ BBS for Enigma 1/2 BBS software… I agree w/ you that Enigma.5 is super rad - in fact, NuSkooler had been working on some integration w/ Mastodon altho I don’t think that feature has made it to the codebase just yet…

ENiGMA.5 Github

And the docs…

System76/PopOS always bringing the noise!!

Thankyou for the link - I’m good at Linux stuff w/ the right info - trust me, I’ve tried to find this data… :P

Appreciate yer help!

OK ; this reply gets traction with me… YES; I can get either site up; right now the bitwarden.domain1.com is live, and the domain2.com isn’t getting ports - but I could switch that around… making domain2.com active/live - then yer saying I could use apache2 vhosts to route bitwarden.domain2.com traffic to a different local IP? Thats exactly what would work easiest for me - I can figure out apache2 vhosts… only I only have experience routing to two sites on the ONE apache2 instance; if I can pass that bitwarden.domain1.com traffic to an external local IP [another proxmox VM running the bitwarden container] that would be perfect.

YES; I am loving the LemmyNet; I’ll be here for awhile.

Understood ; I run all my services on different Proxmox VMs/containers… this isn’t usually an issue until two needed the same 80/443 ports… I suppose I could change the ports for my Bitwarden, as I’m the only user connecting [aside from a partner or 2…] and I could modify the links used to connect accordingly.

I feel like I’m missing some EASY thing; like can’t my apache2 just route the bitwarden.domain1.com traffic to another local IP address…

All these replies are helping - I just gotta pick the solution and GO; just trying to find the easiest, best solution… :P

I live mostly on the command line - I’m not afraid to edit .conf files by hand and its how I do most all things - maybe that’s why I’m having trouble with this setup!! LOLZ

The real question is what Window Manager has the best GUI… you can run any window manager on any distro - it just takes a little work.

If you’re talking about out-of-the-box without any user customization, I’ll make a couple suggestions that I think work for new Linux users - not that I’m saying you’re green, but most power users know they can fully design the OS from the ground up if needed.

PopOS - In between - GNOME-like with some PopOS customizations under the hood.

ElementaryOS - MacOS-like WM thats clean fresh and easy to understand

Mint - Cinnamon DM, Windows-like with some customization possible

I’d only need Cloudflare for one of the sites/VMs; or, both if it’ll handle it easily - I’ll be hosting both sites on my hardware. No sites data will be on Cloudflare, I was only thinking about using a tunnel from them to take care of one, or both, the sites.

Thank you for the reply - I’m blown away that I’ve gotten all these suggestions on LemmyNet before one reply on /r/!

What happened on Monday?

Thanks for the three replies so far; BTW, Lemmy is beating out /r/eddit on this thread!!! :P

Yea, I know that I’m needing a reverse proxy - it was just how to implement one since the two sites aren’t using the same host software; apache2 and nginx… so I think I should run a 3rd VM and route the traffic out to the other 2 local IPs; OR condense the two sites into one VM - which I don’t really want to do…

Or, maybe I pick a [free, paid if needed] Cloudflare tunnel for the lesser used site - and only have to forward to one VM from my IP.

I guess one more solution would be switching the apache2 over to nginx - can I route to a separate local IP from nginx reverse proxies??? Will research…

Thanks for thinking this thru with me - and I’ll keep checking back for other suggestions. :P Appreciated!