I have a few things that I host from my house. I have read that it’s better practice to route stuff through a VPS to not expose your home IP.

Here’s what I’ve done so far: VPN setup on VPS with successful routing of containers. Confirmed by using a CLI IP check within the container which returned the VPS IP. I used PiVPN because I know it and it’s easy to set up.

Where I got stuck: I pointed Nginx to the supposed IP:port of the connection, but couldn’t get it to load.

What should I do next?

  • Darkassassin07English
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    15 hours ago

    This part always confuses me, so I won’t be able to give specifics; just a general direction. Most guides explain how to route traffic from a vpn client to the lan of the vpn host. You need to route traffic from the vpn host/lan to a client of the vpn.

    You need to change the routing table on the VPS, adding a static route to route traffic heading for your VPNs subnet to the VPN host instead of out the default gateway.

    How exactly to do that I’ll have to leave to someone else unfortunately. Network config confuses the hell out of me.