Hi selfhosting community :)
I am hosting some services on a NixOS box (Immich, Nextcloud and some others). So far I had no problem reaching my services, just via tailscale when I am not at home.
But now I wanted to branch out and get a little fancy with https setup and a domain, so I can share my services with friends. I followed this guide and got a domain at cloudflare. However I ran into some problems.
The relevant setup:
spoiler
Nextcloud:
services.nextcloud = {
enable = true;
hostName = "nextcloud.<mydomain>.com";
https = true;
};
Nginx:
services.nginx = {
enable = true;
virtualHosts = {
"nextcloud.<mydomain>.com" = {
forceSSL = true;
useACMEHost = "<mydomain>.com";
};
"immich.<mydomain>.com" = {
forceSSL = true;
useACMEHost = "<mydomain>.com";
locations."/".proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:2283/";
};
"immich.<machine>.<tailnet>.net" = {
locations."/".proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:2283/";
};
};
};
ACME
security.acme = {
acceptTerms = true;
defaults.email = "my@mail.com";
certs."<mydomain>.com" = {
domain = "*.<mydomain>.com";
group = "nginx";
dnsProvider = "cloudflare";
dnsPropagationCheck = true;
credentialsFile = config.sops.secrets.cloudflare.path;
};
};
My situation now is the following:
- I can reach eg. Immich by going to http://<machine>.<tailnet>.net:2283 (https is not working here).
- I can not reach Immich by the domains I have setup in my Nginx configuration. So “immich.<machine>.<tailnet>.net” & “immich.<mydomain>.com” give a “Server not found” error. I tried both 127.0.0.1 and the tailscale IP of the server in the proxyPass section.
Does one of you network wizards know where the problem lies? Or how would I go about troubleshooting the issue?
I found that the cname record seemed to be the problem. Here someone had the same issue. After changing now to a wildcard A record pointing to the tailscale ip, it all magically works. Thanks for all the answers!
Right now, I’ve only got the spoons to provide rough guidance, not details. In order to use non-tailnet IPs, you’ll need to configure your tailnet host to “advertise routes/push routes”. In more laymen terms, tailnet needs to say, “hey network client, I do know where 192.168.0.69 is! So I can route that request”. By default, each tailnet host only advertises the other tailnet hosts. Anything else fails.
Also, I really appreciate how detailed your question is!