Remote portal to local services?

[tonyrulez]

Hi,

 

I have a server running services in Docker containers (sonarr, torrent, rss, adguard, etc.). I really don't want to give them public URLs. So far I've been using them remotely via VPN, connecting to my home network.

However I found Organizr and mistook it as a "portal" to my home network. I thought I could access Organizr remotely, and in it get access to my local services' webUIs (e.g. 192.168.1.105:9191, that kind of things). Unfortunately that's not the case with Organizr, it can only show pages that are otherwise accessible from where I want to browse them.

 

Got me thinking, is there any service that works this way? So I only need to access "mystartpage.com" and I can open 192.168.1.105:9191 etc. in it, just like if I was on my home network.

[Kilrah]

That would be no different from the VPN you already use...

[tonyrulez]

6 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

That would be no different from the VPN you already use...

Except that it would be much faster and easier. Imagine going to a new computer: I would have to install OpenVPN, transfer there my ovpn profile, import it and connect. (Oh and if it's not my computer, remove my profile afterwards and possibly OpenVPN). Then I would have to remember the IPs and ports of all my services. Instead of this, all I would have to remember and open is mystartpage.com, where everything works through bookmarks.

[Master Disaster]

13 minutes ago, tonyrulez said:

Except that it would be much faster and easier. Imagine going to a new computer: I would have to install OpenVPN, transfer there my ovpn profile, import it and connect. (Oh and if it's not my computer, remove my profile afterwards and possibly OpenVPN). Then I would have to remember the IPs and ports of all my services. Instead of this, all I would have to remember and open is mystartpage.com, where everything works through bookmarks.

Impossible without a VPN and anything that allowed this without a VPN would be a huge security issue since mystartpage.com would be accessible to everyone meaning anyone could follow your hyperlinks and access your local services in the exact same way you could.

[Kilrah]

This. If you have one publicly accessible page that when logged in gives you access to your stuff it's no different from having that stuff directly available publicly (assuming they own have their login pages as they should).

[tonyrulez]

Just an example: Portainer allows me to access a container's console through the webUI. Is this a security issue too?

[Pixel5]

10 hours ago, tonyrulez said:

Just an example: Portainer allows me to access a container's console through the webUI. Is this a security issue too?

that depends on if your webUI is accessible from anywhere without a VPN or not.

[Timotheus2]

It sounds like you want a web VPN/gateway. For example this seems to do what you want.