Pro-Tip: You can reverse proxy any service on your network but if the IP of your reverse proxy does not match the IP of your A record, aka your server is behind a VPN, the public will not be able to access your server.
Http/s is neat that way, if the IP’s don’t match then it’s technically considered an insecure or misconfigured setup but it works great to prevent unauthorized access to one’s server.
I must agree with other users here, hosting a public file hosting server is a bad idea, at the bare minimum Authentik or Keycloak should be in front of it but I digress, https://catbox.moe/ already endures this pain for us.
Not sure what reverse proxy you’re using but alternatively Traefik’s middleware IPAllowList works great for blacklisting all IP’s and only whitelisting the known few.














This just in:
Looks like someone took the liberty of uploading copyrighted shows and 3D printable gun parts to his file server.