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I'm putting this under security because i'd like to keep this a private server for family:
that said, I'm wondering if you fine people can help me with the best way to set up a web server in my house to host the files on my external hard drives for family members in other cities/countries while, again, keeping it private and secure over the internet.
I'm looking into ngrok for url handling, but am not sure exactly if this is the best way to go.
Can anyone save me time and possible heartache and failure and provide me (and possibly others) with a walk-through of which software to use. Would love to do something like free, but may have to get a paid unique domain from, say, ngrok, to make it easier for family members to connect up.
Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi... you're my only hope!
(Score: 4, Informative) by richtopia on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:06AM
More places to look for tutorials:
Linode and Digital Ocean have quite a few tutorials for configuring their servers, which typically fit the bill for a home user also:
https://www.linode.com/docs/ [linode.com]
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials [digitalocean.com]
Also, if you want to find documentation written for an entry level audience, I usually just add "raspberry pi" to my query. Raspberry Pis are many people's first server. For example, Nextcloud might fit your web serving needs (think private dropbox/outlook). Nextcloud does provide good documentation, but after searching for "nextcloud raspberry pi" I find the following guide which really steps through every step: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-nextcloud-server/ [pimylifeup.com]