2023-10-15, 03:01 PM
A common question that often comes up for Jellyfin is accessing Jellyfin securely from outside a home network.
The most commonly recommended resource for achieving this is through a reverse proxy, like Caddy. That said, it does not appear that any of the documentation includes a key piece of information about reverse proxies which is port forwarding the port for the proxy.
At neither here nor here, is there any mention that a user needs to port forward Caddy's port (2019), as well as the 80 and 443 ports.
I spent over a month trying to get secure remote access to Jellyfin working and it turned out that the key issues were the missing Caddy port forwarding and then a firewall exception. I suspect that the reason remote Jellyfin access question comes up so frequently is because the documentation does not include key elements like port forwarding the proxy's port, as well as some plain "ELI5" descriptions of what actions to take.
So, what would be the best place to submit a change to the documentation?
The most commonly recommended resource for achieving this is through a reverse proxy, like Caddy. That said, it does not appear that any of the documentation includes a key piece of information about reverse proxies which is port forwarding the port for the proxy.
At neither here nor here, is there any mention that a user needs to port forward Caddy's port (2019), as well as the 80 and 443 ports.
I spent over a month trying to get secure remote access to Jellyfin working and it turned out that the key issues were the missing Caddy port forwarding and then a firewall exception. I suspect that the reason remote Jellyfin access question comes up so frequently is because the documentation does not include key elements like port forwarding the proxy's port, as well as some plain "ELI5" descriptions of what actions to take.
So, what would be the best place to submit a change to the documentation?