Reverse Proxy

This step isn't really the direct next step after creating an account. It is one of the most essential steps to avoid certain CORS errors and will help you through the configuration coming ahead.

Museum runs on port :8080, Ente Photos web app runs on :3000 and so on the other apps are lined up after each other from ports 3001-3004.

We highly recommend using HTTPS for Museum (8080). Primarily, because for security reasons Museum won't accept any incoming HTTP traffic. Hence, all the requests will fail.

Head over to your DNS Management Dashboard and setup the appropriate records for the endpoints. Mostly, A or AAAA records targeting towards your server's IP address should be sufficient. The rest of the work will be done by the web server sitting on your server machine.

With Caddy

Setting up a reverse proxy with Caddy is pretty easy and straightforward. Firstly, install Caddy on your server machine.

sudo apt install caddy

After the installation is complete, a Caddyfile is created on the path /etc/caddy/. This file is used to configure reverse proxies and a whole lot of different things.

# Caddyfile - myente.xyz is just an example.
api.myente.xyz {
    reverse_proxy http://localhost:8080
}
ente.myente.xyz {
    reverse_proxy http://localhost:3000
}
#...and so on for other endpoints

After a few hard-reloads, Ente Photos web app should be up on https://ente.myente.xyz. You can check out the documentation for any other reverse proxy tool (like nginx) you want to use.