New blog post: Garage part 2: adding nginx as reverse proxy to my private S3 Storage
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@jwildeboer @homelab thanks for that series (and your home lab content in general)! Garage really is a godsend after I tried to set up both minio and seaweed fs and didnβt get either properly working.
A little pitfall in the first part of the series - and that might just be due to the specifics of my setup - is that the example config has garage listen on ipv6 only but has garage status try to call it via ipv4. Took me a while to debug so I thought Iβll put it here in case anyone else is running into this. -
New blog post: Garage part 2: adding nginx as reverse proxy to my private S3 Storage
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/01/2-S3-Garage-Behind-Nginx/
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@jwildeboer @homelab I need to check and see how your config matches to the Nomad pack I wrote for it before I publish it
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@jwildeboer I changed all occurrences of [::] to 0.0.0.0
Which sadly makes it ipv4 only now but my ISP didnt provide ipv6 back when I set up my k3s cluster (which is a main consumer of that storage) and now I canβt enable it without tearing down the cluster and starting from scratch Β―\_(γ)_/Β― -
@jwildeboer @homelab I need to check and see how your config matches to the Nomad pack I wrote for it before I publish it
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@jwildeboer @homelab oh I am sure yours is better than mine as you actually run it
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New blog post: Garage part 2: adding nginx as reverse proxy to my private S3 Storage
https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/01/2-S3-Garage-Behind-Nginx/
Replies to this post will show up as comments under the blog post.
@jwildeboer @homelab thanks for sharing! You do the https within your local network right? Does this also work for vpn?
Would you even dare using a vps connected vis vpn to the homelab and say i.e. every vpn addresss 10.0.0.0 is allowed to connect to homelab? So you can access from outside?
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@jwildeboer @homelab thanks for sharing! You do the https within your local network right? Does this also work for vpn?
Would you even dare using a vps connected vis vpn to the homelab and say i.e. every vpn addresss 10.0.0.0 is allowed to connect to homelab? So you can access from outside?
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@jwildeboer @homelab thanks! I assime you dont have experience to expose some services outside your homelab?
I have a usecase where i would like to access a local LLM. But also syncing to S3 when being out of home would be nice.In my case i decided to use a reverse proxy on VPS which allows connection only when i connect via VPN. It works, but i am not sure if its smart
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@jwildeboer @homelab thanks! I assime you dont have experience to expose some services outside your homelab?
I have a usecase where i would like to access a local LLM. But also syncing to S3 when being out of home would be nice.In my case i decided to use a reverse proxy on VPS which allows connection only when i connect via VPN. It works, but i am not sure if its smart
@jwildeboer @homelab ah i have to add, i did it to get https for openwebui, which allows the use of microphone and other things on ios. So without that a vpn would be enough.
So s3 could be accessed with vpn already.
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@jwildeboer @homelab oh I am sure yours is better than mine as you actually run it
I was going off the documentsI have added a Noamd job for the Garage WebUI from
https://github.com/khairul169/garage-webui
You can find it here
My setup is by design isolated to my local network, not reachable from outside. So I never tested or tried a VPN connection.