tailscale friendly app dashboard
from damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2025 21:14
https://lemmy.world/post/33427814

Folks,

When I’m at home, I’ve got Heimdall setup to let me into my applications easily.

When I’m away, I use tailscale to get into my home network. But I end up having to put in the URLs of the applications manually.

What options do I have? Do I setup another Heimdall instance with all the URLs as tailscale friendly?

Is there another dashboard solution out there that maybe takes the base URL of the dashboard and uses that to build the URLs of the applications?

So if I go to home.local then all the apps point to home.local:port and if I get to the dashboard using home.ts.net, then all the apps become home.ts.net:ports

Any suggestions or recommendations of dashboards that do this?

#selfhosted

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damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2025 21:15 next collapse

I know I wrote tailscale friendly, but the same applies to zerotier, Cloudflared, and dyndns, I guess…

baduhai@sopuli.xyz on 24 Jul 2025 21:20 next collapse

If you have a domain, you could setup split brain dns.

coffeeboba@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 2025 22:21 next collapse

I use a reverse proxy (caddy), and point a domain at my machine.ts-domain.ts.net which hosts caddy

this way I can go to service.my.domain instead of machine:port as long as I’m connected to tailscale. any devices not on my tailscale network just get bounced if they hit the domain

themadcodger@kbin.earth on 25 Jul 2025 02:54 collapse

You have a CNAME record that points service.my.domain to machine-that-hosts-caddy.ts-domain.ts.net, and with tailscale enable it hits the caddy server and then reverse proxies it to the machine:port of "service"? Which may or may not be the tailscale IP address and port?

coffeeboba@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2025 18:19 collapse

Basically yeah.

CNAME points my.domain to *.machine-that-hosts-caddy.my-ts-domain.ts.net

caddy running on that machine directs subdomains to machine:port pairs, where “machine” is either the tailscale name or IP for the machine hosting the service

themadcodger@kbin.earth on 25 Jul 2025 18:37 collapse

Thanks!

ColdCreasent@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 2025 16:50 collapse

Just setup a second page in heimdall with Tailscale friendly links. Duplicate what you already have setup and then update links.