Firstly, thanks to the comunity for advice setting up this server.
I have had a webserver before so I know how to port forward on the Frizbox router but I’m guessing I don’t want to port forward 80 to the TrueNas server without doing something else to get that traffic from the router to the content via the domains.
I’ve installed Wordpress on TrueNAS and I plan to host 2 or 3 small blogs so any advice would be apricated.
My advice is to not do it. Way too many ways to screw this up.
Use a caddy reverse proxy in a jail for example to terminate SSL and have a central choke point.
Better replace the Fritzbox with e.g. OPNsense so you can run the publicly reachable services in a separate VLAN …
By screw it up you mean allowing access? Not that bothered about that. But the few suggestions I’ve had so far seem a bit cumbersome. Thing is I don’t really want to run a webserver & a NAS I can’t afford the energy consumption. I fully understand I’m trying to use the software as it was unintended. But I’ll also sure the is a way having worked in IT and install firewalls back when clouds were really in the sky.
Wordpress is a can of worms. Then you’re gonna use a bunch of stuff made by others that you yourself could not put together. If something is not well thought out and you get “hacked” then, who you gonna call ?, ghostbusters ?
Find some online hosting and do it there.
My 2 cents given that you are asking things that should not be asked by one who knows how sites get hacked. Or a port number is standardized for.
I think you are a bit behind the times. 800 million Wordpress sites in the world and they pick mine? I’ll count myself a little unlucky. Even then I’m not going to cry over my content it’s not ecom,
Yes I worked in IT, yes I can do it, but time in computers passes, I’m new to TrueNES and all I was asking is a how people are doing it? to save me waking up this old horse up. If people don’t want to or can’t answer why reply at all? (I think anyone who has used a forum before knows why).
…just did. But have your fun.
“They didn’t tell me what I wanted to hear” ≠ “they didn’t answer.”
I’d also recommend against your proposed course of action. And if you’re simultaneously saying that you want to host Wordpress but don’t want to run a webserver, I might gently suggest that you don’t know as much about IT as you think you do. But if you insist on doing it, the way to do it is more or less what Patrick suggested: set up a reverse proxy (be it Caddy, Traefik, NPM, or something else), forward 80/443 on your router to that reverse proxy, and point that reverse proxy to the various sites you want to host. If you run decent router software like OPNsense, the reverse proxy can run on the router itself; otherwise it can run in a container or a VM on your NAS, on a separate device like a Raspberry Pi, or really wherever else on your LAN you like.
For the record, what I said, perhaps poorly, was I didn’t want to run a webserver and NAS server, two machines I want it all on one. And yes Nginx is an option of many.
Until someone hijacks your machine to attack someone else who then sues you.
If you really want to know, as you claim, how others do it, you already have your answer.
I’ve decided to go another way other than TrueNas. So you can all stop fighting for attention now.
Once again thanks to those who were kind enough to offer help. But far too many “experts” on this forum for me anyway.
