Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

Published on 2021-10-30 in 💬 Micro

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I am using Nitter, an alternative interface for Twitter, just in case I want to read a thread on Twitter. Previously I hosted the instance directly on my VPS. Now, however, I host the Nitter instance at home, but make it available on the Internet through Tailscale, a little program I wrote called “ProxyExposer”, and Caddy. 🤓 I also briefly tried publishing a WordPress instance from home to the web this way. But I don’t have a use case for WordPress at the moment.

Tags: Nitter, Tailscale

Interactions & Comments

Arun @en I've been self-hosting a few things too like libreddit, Whoogle and pihole. Available everywhere using Tailscale, and Caddy reverse proxy for using them on subdirectories. Could you share what exactly ProxyExposer does?
Paul @en I think you should be able to do it only with caddy, as now caddy reverse proxies to your script, which reverse proxys to caddy. You can just set caddy to reverse proxy directly to tailscale
Jan-Lukas Else rathole – ngrok alternative Some time ago I tried to make my Nitter instance available on the Internet from home via Tailscale, Caddy and an own building block in between, but stopped it again a short time later because it didn’t work that well somehow. Today I found out about rathole, and what can I say? It works great and seems to be much faster than my previous solution! So now I can not only make Nitter accessible on the go without Tailscale, but also for example my Baikal instance, which I use for calendar and cont…
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