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I thought I was going to use Authentik for this purpose but it just seems to redirect to an otherwise Internet accessible page. I'm looking for a way to remotely access my home network at a site like remote.mywebsite.com. I have Nginx proxy forwarding with SSL working appropriately, so I need an internal service that receives the traffic, logs me in, and passes me to services I don't want to expose to the Internet.

My issue with Authentik is if I need to access questionable internal websites I have to make an Internet accessible subdomain. I don't want authentik.mywebsite.com to redirect to totallyillegal.mywebsite.com. I want it to redirect to 10.1.1.30:8787.

Is there anything that does that?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

it just seems to redirect to an otherwise Internet accessible page.

I'm using authelia with caddy but I'm guessing it could be similar, you need to configure the reverse proxy to expect the token the authentication service adds to each request and redirect to sign in if not. This way all requests to the site are protected (of course you'll need to be aware of APIs or similar non-ui requests)

I have to make an Internet accessible subdomain.

That's true, but you don't have to expose the actual services you're running. An easy solution would be to name it other thing, specially if the people using it trust you.
Another would be to create a wildcard certificate, this way only you and those you share your site with will know the actual sub domain being used.

My advice is from my personal setup, but still all internal being able to remotely access it via tailscale, so do you really need to make your site public to the internet?
Only if you need to share it with multiple people is worth having it public, for just you or a few people is not worth the hassle.