So I was able to install everything correctly, but I don’t know what I’m supposed to do in order for people that don’t have my same IP to see my files. I’d like to share my Jellyfin server with some friends so they can see movies there. I’ve already open the ports, but they can’t still access them, I’m using elementaryOS Hera which is built on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.
I can’t find a good guide at the moment, but I fumbled my way through setting up a reverse proxy with duckdns and a Caddy web server:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy.html
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t/securing-your-jellyfin-install-https-with-caddy-server/282
I’ll see if I can find a better guide.
I was able to install nginx but I don’t really know how to make the reverse proxy point towards the Jellyfin thingy. u_u I’ll use any software for reverse proxy, though.
Also, I need everything to be free (as in beer) because I don’t have money to spent in anything to be honest.
Don’t worry, it’s all free.
You can achieve the same with nginx and getting a certificate from Let’s Encrypt. But you might as well use Caddy instead since it gets the certificate for you.
Some key points of what you will want to do are:
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on your router forward port 443 to the IP address of the server / computer you’re running jellyfin from.
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get your external IP. You can run “curl ifconfig.co” in your terminal. Go to duckdns and create a URL. Copy and paste your external IP.
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The rest will be Caddy / Jellyfin set up. If you’ve got it working you’ll be able to access the jellyfin login screen from the URL you created with duckdns
Okay, so did I do the port forwarding correctly?
I’m trying to create an account on DuckDNS but I don’t seem to find the way to do it, there’s only sign in buttons. :(
Both internal and external should be 443. create another one with both port 80.
In your router’s setup page, what is your external IP address? is it something like 10.xx.xx.xx?
Then run caddy and try to connect example.duckdns.org
Did you setup duckdns through your router? can you go to it’s settings and see it is pointing to the right one?
It hasn’t been workin because I am under a double NAT, so my ports aren’t really open, so I need to contact my ISP and see if they can give me my own IP or if they can open the ports.
They won’t give you your own ipv4 address unless you’re registered as a business. Try asking for ipv6 address.
That makes sense.
If 192.168.0.103 is the IP address of your jellyfin server that should be ok. I think both internal and external port should be 443
For DuckDNS you may need to sign in with another service like github, Google, etc.
Okay, so now I have created a domain with DuckDNS, I have opened that port and I have installed Caddy, what should I do next?
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy.html
I think you should be able to run:
caddy reverse-proxy --from example.com --to 127.0.0.1:8096where example.com is your duckdns URL
Instead of 127.0.0.1:8096 I should input my public IP, right?
Also, log in to your Jellyfin server. Go to Settings > Admin Dashboard > Networking and tick the checkbox for “Allow remote connections to this server”.
Done.
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