#forward my public adress to domain name

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broken wing
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Hi
I installed back Overseerr and I want to configure back a public website that I already bought to get my friends use it, but I Don't know how to configure everything I'm lost.
Right now I just Have a domain name that I bought on namecheap, and I forwarded my public ip through the advanced DNS setting, but I suppose this is not enought.

For now I use Overseerr only myself at home and outdoor ( publicip:5055 is working ).

I Searched for information but couldn't get it through, I looked for Cloudfare and nginx ? But that's already too much to comprehend for me

boreal nymph
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honestly without any IT background that is a bit much to take, but assuming overseerr is the only service you want to expose publicly, having domain name, proper DNS record and port-forward on your router should be enough

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thou it won't be secured with https

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what you could do

  1. A type DNS record pointing to your public IP.
  2. That already should allow you to reach overseerr over http://you.domain.com:5055 (provided you can already do so with public_ip:5055)
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if you want to get rid of the port, you have to create o port-forward rule on your router, to forward port 80->5055 to your internal device IP

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but that is just to give you some context, as mentioned major issue here is no https and I doubt overseerr can do it on its own, you would need some 3rd party stuff like the nginx you mentioned

tribal cape
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You could look into configuring ngnix reverse proxy manager and configuring your domain/SSL there and then re-direct it to your overseerr that's what i've got configured