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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.
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(Score: 2) by NewNic on Saturday January 20 2018, @12:21AM (2 children)
Don't use SSH. If you want this type of approach, set up a VPN with OpenVPN.
The next problem is how do your users find your home network IP address? Assuming it is dynamic, you need some kind of dynamic DNS setup.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:05PM (1 child)
Why?
But that would likely be a lot more work to configure. Especially if you don't want to route your relatives' complete traffic through your home network hosting the private server.
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(Score: 2) by NewNic on Monday January 22 2018, @08:07PM
OpenVPN is very easy to configure.
OpenVPN doesn't do this. It merely creates a tunnel. What you pass through the tunnel is up to other processes.
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