Hey all, I’m relatively new to the selfhosting game the most I’ve done to date is own and maintain a plex server for the last few years, but that mainly handles all of the networking for me so I’d say it doesn’t really count.
Recently, due in part to the ongoing controversy with audibles royalty and streaming model I’ve decided to try my hand at setting up an Audiobookshelf server of my own. For reference I’m running on a machine with Ubuntu 20.04. Ive managed to get Audiobookshelf and nginx running through docker and accessible via the localhost:port, but now I feel like I’m missing some key understandings.
I assume I need to have a domain name through a DNS service like cloudflare in order to make use of it, but I’m not sure what to do after that and the documentation that I have read doesn’t outright answer my questions.
Once I have my DNS setup, how do I associate it with my server or point it through the nginx reverse proxy?
I know I’ll have to setup a .conf file for nginx at some point and I found the example .conf in the audiobookshelf documentation, but I just feel like I’m missing the step between getting a domain name and establishing the reverse proxy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
I think you only nginx and dns sorted if you want to go public and or super secure. I acces my servers via their tailscale host name. That includes ios linux android clients. If you don’t know what tailscale is in a few words the easiest way to access your services/servers.
I had considered not using nginx for precisely those reasons, but like the plex server i want to make it available to my family and friends and so the nginx reverse proxy build seemed to be the most widely applicable and still secure option so I only need to tell them to download audiobookshelf and point it at the correct domain name.
I seee. That’s a 100% valid reason. Im nerd(or naive) enough to grab their phones tabs etc and just add them to my tailnet and it works pretty well however I’m not sure if I cloud explain some non tech the not so technical tailscale setup either. So yeah I hear you but too noob to help lmfao