Hi,
New to all this, just got a few services I’m running on a raspberry pi to get started, but I’d already like to start using an address like pihole.home.lan to access a service instead of memorizing the ip and port. Since everything is on the pi the services are have individual ports, which I think complicates things. Trying to do everything in docker too, mostly because it seems to make it easier to remove something if it gets botched.
I’ve done a little googling to figure this out, seems like the solution is a combination of pihole to catch requests then send them to nginx to route them to individual ports. I found a guide which looks like it should do exactly this https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/blob/master/examples/docker-compose-nginx-proxy.yml but it the services aren’t connecting to each other right.
If anyone has another guide to accomplish something similar or could answer some questions I’d appreciate it!
If you’re primarily accessing it from a single computer, you can add entries in your
/etc/hostsfile on Linux/MacOS, orC:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hostson Windows.Tutorial on how to do so.
If you want it to be network wide you’ll have to add a manual DNS entry to your router. Most routers do this automatically by device hostname, so if you set the hostname on your pi to
pi.localit should just work.Tutorial on how to do so.