You know whats funny... while I have Apollo installed - I always used Reddit's main app. :P LULZ - but I fully support them keeping their API open, as it has been for YEARS. I think they're fully out of line.
paulie420
joined 2 years ago
LOL ; thank gosh I haven't seen that, yet... I hope LemmyNet continues to be developed and takes advantage of Reddit's ship jumpers.
I think its broken... or crumbling from the 10s of us trying to load page .P
Alright, I wanted to come back now that my setup is complete... special thanks to those of you who suggested nginx-proxy-manager - its very nicely put together and really makes reverse proxies a breeze...
Long story short, I just created a brand new VM... started with the proxy manager and built on top of that. Next up was my static Hugo website; it was too easy to point change Apache2's ports.conf to 8097 instead of 80, and use nginx-proxy-manager for the SSL certs... that one was basically plug and play.
The Bitwarden bit was a bit more involved, but not too bad... at first I just redirected traffic to the original (other machine) Bitwarden VM - but no one wants an extra VM to backup and support... so I went with a fork Docker of bitwarden_rs/vaultmaster - it comes w/ e-mail setup in the container, so one less thing to worry about... I had to swap around some docker-compose.yml ports and just point nginx-proxy-manager at it... this time, tho, I used the SSL certs from the docker; I didn't wanna dig in and remove what they already had running.
In the middle I was still fighting with myself and not taking ya'lls good suggestions - I tried to go the Cloudflared route; which is a cool service... but you can't tunnel root domains unless you're a paid user. Cloudflared tunnels would be great for exposing the Plex, TrueNAS, etc's of the world... but I didn't NEED/want subnets.
Thanks to the Beehaw community... TechHeart.life is up and running. :P (Don't worry, the Bitwarden is on a private domain. Phhhbbbbtttt.)
Everyone here is awesome for ALL the replies. :P Thank you!!
I decided to try a Cloudflared tunnel, but that didn't work out because I can't get the main domain1.com domain to go thru the tunnel... only 'apps', like blog.domain1.com. :P
And, I'm still ironing out how to pass nginx to another local IP on my network; I just haven't gotten it to click yet. All the info needed is right here - I promise to come back when I iron out the setup and post how I managed to do it...
I can figure out how to pass nginx [or apache2, for that matter] to another PORT on the same local IP - I think I have both domains listening on ports 80/443 - and I'll have to change that in order to route the data correctly... let alone getting out to another local IP.
Again appreciate all the info - sometimes I just have to learn a bit more since I have all the documents right here. :P
Agreed - I don't think I've been on a Tornado BBS software; but I still code in Mystic BBS's PASCAL-like MPL language. :P
damnit! :P
Hold my beer! LEMMINGS
I only know enough code to break things, but I wouldn't mind working on some documentation - I'll go read what Lemmy needs; thanks for reminding me that anyone can chip in.
Heck yea, I am a retro enthusiast. I currently have a PiBoy DMG running emulation staion and a customized version of Raspberry Pi OS w/ joycon and buttons mapped to a mouse emulation - its a nice form factor for having a portable Linux-box in the field... I still get looks when I whip out a 'gameboy' to do some actual work. :P
I stick to mostly 8bit and 16bit platforms, so the Pi 4 is more than enough for me...
I also have a few retro computer setups; of course, a C=128 for all my Commodore needs - an Apple g4 basketball w/ MacOS 9 - an antique Philco Predicta television that runs both some Python script for random vintage videos, and can serve up PONG - I retrofitted an old PONG controller w/ a Pi Pico so it feels right.
I have a couple other machines that bring me back to the 486 MS-DOS days. :P
Nice to know theres other folks that are into this hobby - cheers!
LOL... it'll be easy, I tell ya!
So I dove in this afternoon, thinking I had all the info I needed to easily get a setup w0rking... I changed my port forwards to the domain2.com machine - the one running apache2 on a webiste; leaving the bitwarden.domain1.com not seeing traffic. Then, I created a new virtual host file on the domain2.com machine;
cat bitwarden.domain1.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName bitwarden.domain1.com
ProxyPass / http://10.0.0.155/ nocanon
ProxyPassReverse / http://10.0.0.155/
ServerAdmin paulie420@domain1.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =bitwarden.domain1.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
And ran certbot to get https certs - certification would only be on the domain2.com machine; all proxied data would be sent over http, but I figured that was OK as its just me accessing the domain1.com service.
BUT alas, the setup didn't work; I have some suspicions... bitwarden is running inside a docker container, so... I dunno if that has something to do with how its listening, and its running nginx; what I thought was that apache2 would simply send all traffic from the bitwarden.domain1.com domain over to my local IP 10.0.0.155 machine and that machine would just pick it up simple pimple and display to the user going to that domain. Another thought - maybe its because Docker/Bitwarden HAS https in that container - ohhhh, thats a thought; however it still didn't function correctly before I ran certbot on the domain2.com setup.
UGH... more to come - I'm trying options. :/ Grrrrrr. :P
PS; posting code in Lemmy doesn't work so great, does it? I used a backtick but didn't get the results I'm accustomed to...
What is a BBS?
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through public message boards and sometimes via direct chatting. In the early 1980s, message networks such as FidoNet were developed to provide services such as NetMail, which is similar to internet-based email.
Back in the early 90s I was turned on to the PC MS-DOS community. It was a fun time of WordPerfect 5.0, Lotus 1-2-3 and some text and light graphical games that came around the way... Tapper, Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 and other worthy softwarez; but things got real when I learned that you could dial-up to other computers, and bulletin board systems, to reach a world beyond your monitor. In the United States, and many other countries as I've come to learn, you could find [amost] hundreds of BBSes in every area code! There were plenty of public domain [shareware] boards, but the elite user could find systems dedicated to more seedy topics... HPAVC [Hacking, phreaking, anarchy, virus, cracking], warez [pirate software], the art and dem0scenes... you could literally find anything you sought out. As time went on, BBSes would get their own type of message networking; FidoNet FTNs and begin to connect in ways that weren't originally possible. At the end of BBSes, many of them turned into early ISPs in the cities they operated in, as the sysOps already had a lot of the hardware that was needed - and many sysOps would earn a very good living serving up the bytes of data that their users lusted...
Sounds boring... I can only take so many Lemmy messages...
Door Games were a huge part of BBSing. Door Games were brought to life with the ANSi graphics that BBSes used - while they weren't fully graphical, they were exciting and multi-player... something that you couldn't get on PCs of the day. Popular Door Games were Tradewars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon [LoRD], Barren Realms Elite, The Pit, Arrowbridge, DrugWars, Operation Overkill II and many m0re. For the time, they were literally worlds beyond what you could find on early 8088 machines... and continued to be very popular even as graphics won over w/ the likes of the shareware kings. The reason? Multi-player games; there are many servers and BBSes that still get users lining up to play - in 2o23!
Phone lines are dead, how do we connect?!
After copper wires telephone lines went the way of the dodo, and TCP/IP took over the interwebs, the BBSes of the day mostly went offline... but it would prove short-lived, as we soon learned how to connect the old BBS software up to TELNET and SSH - allowing them to be hosted on the web; no m0re phone bills to get you grounded!! All you need to connect today is an ANSi-capable terminal software. (Or, PETSCII for Commdore BBSes, AmigaFonts for Amiga boards or Atari support for Atari bbSes...) There are a few of these that are developed for current machines:
Syncterm - Syncterm is the 'best', as it has ANSi, PETSCII, C=, Amiga, Atari, RIP and SIXEL support.
Netrunner - Netrunner is a GREAT ANSI/Amiga terminal [About 80% of all BBSes] as it has anti-aliasing and the fonts look smooth and crisp.
MagiTERM - A decent terminal, developed by APAM.. a BBS user that also develops door games and even BBS software...
The easiest, if you run Linux or Windows, is Netrunner... SyncTERM is a binary download for Windows and MacOS, but will require a compile on Linux... don't worry, tho - MeaTLoTioN of The Quantum Wormhole BBS has an awesome how-to/script that you can follow to compile it with ease!
- You can also connect using MS-DOS, or other, software on real hardware... there are many Wifi Modem's to choose from, but I'll make you hunt for Telix or Terminate 5.0 on your own time...)
They're all stupid stock boards - wheres the beef!?
Many new BBS users peruse The Telnet BBS Guide and are first surprised at how many BBSes are available to connect to... only to quickly find out that the majority of listed boards are stock setups without much substance or community... but I'm here to tell you that you just have to turn the r0cks and find the great BBSes out there; or, just connect to these:
2o fOr beeRS - This is actually my bbS!! We get about 30 callers a day, have all the popular FidoNet-FTNs and over 800 users... come on by, 2oFB is a wild one. MORE Social, less Media.
20ForBeers.com:1337 TELNET :1338 SSH
aBSINTHE - Ran by the sysOp aNACHRONiST - he's also a great ASCII artist and aBSINTHE is literally my favorite BBS of all time. It's an Amiga joint, ran on CNet BBS software. Skyraiders is a door game that he's developed from scratch and is one of the very best doors I've ever played... you aren't BBSing if yer not here!
absinthebbs.net:1940 TELNET
The Quantum Wormhole - Another mainstay of BBSes and home to MeaTLoTioN, the writer of that Syncterm script from above... its just a damn good BBS; clean, safe and solid. Some SIXEL graphics support if you look around...
bbs.erb.pw:23 TELNET
Wizards Rainbow - Can you believe this one?! Shooter Jennings, yea THAT Shooter Jennings, is the sysOp! Furthermore, he writes custom Door Games and just introduced a new one called Phantasie Plaza! Its a LoRD-type RPG and is looking really nice. He also wrote a few other Doors; 1NS0MNIA - and hosts a Door Game Server that any sysOp can connect their BBS to... rock and roll w/ Shooter @ the rainbow...
wizardsrainbow:23 TELNET
Dura-Europos - This one runs on an old Apple IIe BBS software - and is literally still hosted from Apple IIe hardware running at 9600 baud! Skip, the sysOp, does amazing things w/ that Apple... including a lot of Syncterm font switching and graphic wizardry - this one doesn't have all the flashing lights and pizazz as some other boards, but when you see what he does with rudementary hardware - its amazing!
dura-bbs.net:6359 TELNET
SLACKERS BBS - The bad boys of BBSing... the assholes... the haters - and a damn solid BBS, too. (The sysOp, GnGRDR3DMan, doesn't even care to pay for a domain.... gangster!)
slackers.ddns.net:2323 TELNET
Black Flag - Hawk, the sysOp, never left BBSing... he is one of the original pirates, the original r0ckstars - and his family of BBSes are many. I'll only link to the main one, but it features RIP graphics if you wanna experience that - RIP never really caught on, but Hawk don't care!! (You can find 5+ other Black Flag boards if you l00k for them...)
blackflag.acid.org:23 TELNET
Frozen Floppy - This is a Commodore 64 BBS; you'll have to have Syncterm, and you'll have to select C64 or C128 as the 'screen mode'. You'll be amazed at the 40-column PETSCII graphics, and the fact that C= users are still kickin... the art here is top notch, too... C= heaven.
bbs.retrohack.se:64128 TELNET
Do I really wanna spend time on this sh*t?!
You do. You'll be amazed by the community of BBSing in 2o23 - I know this, because you're here... sysOps of BBSes are also OSS, privacy minded, federation, technology and Linux users! While very different from the Twitters or Facebooks of social media, BBSes offer something you can't get on that shiny iPhone - community. I hope to catch you @ 2oFB, or on one of the many other BBSes still running today. GET S0ME!
If you have any questions about bulletin boards, please feel free to email me @ 2oFB or reply here; there's always someone willing to help, whether you want to become a user, a door game player or even a sysOp... you'll find it all on a BBS near, or far, from you!
- pAULIE42o
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Hello people of the fediverse! Wanted to quickly introduce myself and mention why I'm here... I was a Reddit lurker, I enjoyed it - and then I starting learning about alternatives... federated self-hosted replacements... the Matrix, Mast, Lemmy things of the w0rld. So I searched for a Lemmy community that I wanted to rock with and found Beehaw. Once I saw that I didn't need to supply my home address, social security #, email, etc etc etc - I was in. I'm a retro computing lover - come by 2o fOr beeRS bbS @ 20ForBeers.com:1337; ANSI-TELNET/SSH[:1338] terminal needed. I'm a member of other federated Matrix and Mastodon communities; matrix.erb.pw mast.erb.pw
And h0pe to meet other like-minded folks around these parts. HELLO!
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