Remote access using Caddy

[Swindiff]

Hi
I currently use Caddy as a reverse proxy to access Jellyfin remotely.  I have configured NextPVR to work with Jellyfin, unfortunately the playback and recording via the Jellfin plugin are a bit clunky, and I get regular crashes of Jellyfin.  NextPVR works so much better in Kodi, but I would also like to be able to remote access.

My original Caddyfile to access Jellyfin remotely is

MyDomain {
encode gzip
    reverse_proxy localhost:8096
}

I tried to change it to

MyDomain {
encode gzip
    reverse_proxy localhost:8096
    reverse_proxy localhost:8866
}

I though If I typed the domain with the port it would give me access to NextPVR, but I just get "this site can't be reached"

I then tried

MyDomain:8096 {
encode gzip
    reverse_proxy localhost:8096
}
MyDomain:8866 {
encode gzip
    reverse_proxy localhost:8866
}

This stops my Jellyfin server from starting

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[mvallevand]

I don't know Caddy but NextPVR works with a reverse proxy. Did you try a forum search for Caddy I saw another post that might help and got it working.

If Caddy is running on a different IP meaining localhost won't work, you do have to enable remote connects on web settings plus change the username, password and PIN from defaults.

Martin

[Swindiff]

Hi Martin
I have changed username, password and Pin. Caddy is running on the same PC as both Jellyfin Server and NextPVR. I did some googling for running multiple applications on the same caddyfile and those 2 examples are what I found, neither seem to work. So with my setup I don't have to enable remote connection, because traffic is coming from Caddy which is local NextPVR. I thought that would be how Jellyfin would work, but no, I had to enable remote connections for that.
Thanks

[mvallevand]

If the post from the forum search (not Google) didn't help then there is not much I can add. Reverse proxy take away all security that NextPVR provdes since it will all be localhost and I will leave it to you to secure things.

Martin

[Swindiff]

How would you suggest is the most secure way to set up remote access to NextPVR?

[mvallevand]

I don't make recommendations on home security or hardening of NextPVR users can still configure things badly. Since the reverse proxy removes all NextPVR's checks you have to trust Caddy and router security and if you feel that isn't good enough for you VPN's would be the way to go. I think your browser search will find lots of hits about using Tailscale with Caddy.

Martin

[Swindiff]

Sub actually recommends reverse proxy for remote access here

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid542529

[mvallevand]

If you read that thread a little a few posts further he notes a VPN too, I don't see either post as a recommendation.

Anyway feel free to do what you want with your home network, it is not a NextPVR issue.

Martin