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I already host multiple services via caddy as my reverse proxy. Jellyfin, I am worried about authentication. How do you secure it?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kinda hard because they have an ongoing bug where if you put it behind a reverse proxy with basic auth (typical easy button to secure X web software on Internet), it breaks jellyfin.

Best thing is to not. Put it on your local net and connect in with a vpn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not experiencing that bug. My reverse proxy is only accessed locally at the moment though. I did have to play with headers a bit in nginx to get it working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Basic auth. The bug is if you enable basic auth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is enabled, but now I'm doubting that. I'll double check when my homelab shift is complete.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It isnt. Else you wouldn't be able to load many jellyfin assets. Because there's a colission of the Auth header