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How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? (programming.dev)
submitted 4 days ago by lambda@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I already host multiple services via caddy as my reverse proxy. Jellyfin, I am worried about authentication. How do you secure it?

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[–] skoell13@feddit.org 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

My setup: Locally (all in docker):

  • JF for managing and local access
  • JF with read only mounted volumes that uses the network of my Wireguard client container
  • Wireguard client opening a tunnel to Wireguard server on VPS ** Ping container regularly doing pings to Wireguard Server so the connection stays up (didn't manage it otherwise)

VPS (Oracle Cloud free tier, also everything in docker):

  • Caddy as a reverse proxy with https enabled and geolocking (only certain countries are allowed to connect to)
  • fail2ban to block IPs that try to bruteforce credentials
  • Wireguard server

Usernames are not shown in the frontend and have to be entered. Passwords are generated by a password manager and can't be changed by the user.

So my clients just get the URL of my reverse proxy and can access the read only JF through my Wireguard tunnel. Didn't have to open any ports on my side. If someone is interested I can share the docker compose files later.

Edit: Here the link to the setup description. Please tell me if something is not clear or you find an error. https://codeberg.org/skjalli/jellyfin-vps-setup

[–] Enceladus@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This seems like a developer/infrastructure level job, any dumb down step by step procedure to recommend?

[–] skoell13@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://codeberg.org/skjalli/jellyfin-vps-setup here you go, took me longer than expected and I hope it's helpful, might contain a few errors since I had to remove some settings but I guess this should work.

[–] Enceladus@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you! Impressive documentation work, looks like I have to learn docker first.

[–] skoell13@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

It's a steep learning curve for sure but once you get the basics it's straight forward until you hit very specific problems.

Are you a Windows or Linux user? They often want to push their Docker UI application but in my opinion docker engine with docker compose is enough. There are probably a lot of great tutorials out there and I can recommend https://www.linuxserver.io/ for images.

[–] skoell13@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

I am currently in the ptocess to document my docker fioes and upload them to codeberg with a readme, it takes a bit, will let you know once I am done

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