Kind of a quick off the cuff question… but is it difficult to get a docker hosted jellyfin server accessible outside of lan safely?
I have tailscale and a VPN I can use for my own devices but would like to be able to access it safely without needing those.
Stick with the VPN. No point in exposing more services with possible security vulnerabilities.
I love Jellyfin but I would absolutely not make it accessible over the public internet. A VPN is the way to go.
Why not just run your own WireGuard instance? I have a pivpn vm for it and it works great. You could also just put jellyfin behind a TLS terminating reverse proxy.
If you are not behind a CGNAT, it should be as easy as opening the necessary ports.
I have a reverse proxy running in ports 80, 443 and can safely access Jellyfin on a subdomain without issues from outside my LAN.
To get it outside the LAN, you just need to forward the port it uses in your router. Example 8096 for regular http requests. I would highly recommend getting at least a reverse proxy with an SSL cert.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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Depends on your definition of safe.
If you do a public port forward and set up basic security and proper SSL its safe from the majority of people.
