I posted an edit to the post on how I i solved it. Your feedback was helpful in the solution!

I think so. One issue i ran in to is that trying to go anywhere would land on the ui page. If I put npm on ports 80/443, then the UI needs to be elsewhere so I can access it. It shouldn’t be too hard, I hope

Hmm, i may have to get my admin ui’s off of ports 80/443 and port forward with NPM on those ports instead. The reason I was using nginx on the router was so the server could keep the UI on the normal ports and Nginx elsewhere.

I think then I could remove the router Nginx entries and add the DNS rewrite

There’s an idea. I may play with it tomorrow.bill be back on the road, so I’m not keen on doing too much when I can’t fix it haha. But right now the router is DNS, so when I did traceroute there was only one stop. But it was the SSL termination that got me. I might be able to download the stream module for Nginx. I think if I wanted to be optimal I may have to totally restructure that part…

Edit: thank you for the feedback, you’ve given me something to think about

You got me on to something. It looks like Nginx can be configured for tls passthrough https://serversforhackers.com/c/tcp-load-balancing-with-nginx-ssl-pass-thru

I think you might be right on that. I was originally not wanting to do any port forwarding on the router, but I may have to

So even if I remove the SSL cert lines from the router Nginx config, it seems to be applying the router’s SSL certificate. I commented out some lines to use a certificate for my root domain, but I’d rather NPM handle that, which doesn’t seem to be happening.

I thought you could put the full URL and find it that way as well, but if you mean you want to find it by title, that should work normally, unless i misunderstood

There is also a thing where you’ll want undetermined to be selected as well

I just got cactus comments working on my writefreely blog. Cactus comments needs matrix, so I got matrix with element set up. It was an incredibly frustrating journey of learning, but it turns out the final bit wasn’t too complicated. I’m running on TruNas, which I hear you shouldn’t do, but it’s too late haha.

I also got the whatsapp bridge set up, but it doesn’t look like matrix supports disappearing messages, so I left some rooms it created b/c one of the larger groups easily took up a gig of storage before disappearing messages was turned on.

Anyway, writefreely has federated cactus comments that you can currently only sign in with a matrix account lol. I can try and change that later. I host the photos with picsur.

I think that I need to collect my notes and memories and put it into a blog post, but I don’t really want to turn my blog (if I even keep up with it) into a blog about how to self host a blog.

In hindsight, I don’t think the comments were worth it, but whatever.

Good things can’t happen anymore. You might also say that bad things can’t happen either, but if it’s over then there’s no opportunity at all. Life can change as long as it’s there.

I learned to be sensitive and expensive anyway. It turns out men and women like it. I tell my friends what they mean to me. I tell people what I’m thinking or doing. The women I’m with think it’s hot. One straight up told me, “You’re in your masculine but in touch with your feminine. That’s hot.”

I’m open. I look people in the eye and hold eye contact. I exist genuinely. But it took a long time to get there