Admincraft•3w ago

Reverse proxy on a private VPS

I have a private ubuntu VPS that I want to use as a reverse proxy for my minecraft server, which I run on my local machine, though I am not really familiar with linux. I know the very basics of networking and I'm just curious if anybody has a tutorial or could help me set it up. What I wanna do is to make it work basically like playit.gg but so I can control it fully

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lavaking46•3w ago

You'll need to setup some kind of VPN to connect between the two. Iirc tailscale would probably work for this

grgOP•3w ago

Would I need to install the tailscale client on both machines?

lavaking46•3w ago

it looks like yes based on the docs

grgOP•3w ago

Could you send me a tutorial on how I go about doing that?

lavaking46•3w ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPdvyR7bLqI&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftailscale.com%2F (this is from tailscales site)

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grgOP•3w ago

Is tailscale an alternative to wireguard?

lavaking46•3w ago

No, its uses wireguard as its backend

grgOP•3w ago

Alright, thank you, I will try it out later

iRazvan2745•3w ago

It’s WireGuard that only proxies connections made to the tailnet

Upioti•3w ago

Why?

grgOP•2w ago

I did it Took a while, but I managed to do it Thank you Though now there is another problem, the chunks load really slowly I tested the connection speed between my PC and the VPS and it's 20 Mbps, which should be more than enough The connection is also direct

lavaking46•2w ago

it's likely related to your computer specs then

Upioti•2w ago

Not really

grgOP•2w ago

Are you saying it's not enough? Well I have a pretty beefy PC, so I don't really know what the issue is I used playit.gg, and sometimes it worked great, but sometimes it didn't work at all, which is why I switched

TecTrix•2w ago

cpu? ram? allocated ram?

Upioti•2w ago

Not at all 5 players joining at once or loading chunks can saturate that And keep in mind this is shared with your home network If you have parents or roommates They watch a YouTube video and say goodbye to your ping You upload/download a file and server will lag

grgOP•2w ago

Ryzen 7 5800x3d RAM 32 gigs, 30 allocated

TecTrix•2w ago

You should probably allocate a little less ram

grgOP•2w ago

Well the thing is, when I was using playit, and when it was working properly, everybody's chunks loaded instantaniously, even though my connection was the same as it is now Maybe, I didn't have problems with it thus far though

Upioti•2w ago

I’m pretty sure their reverse proxy will have network optimizations and also the anycsst routing helps

Beef•2w ago

I'm using the same setup with tailscale. Put both devices into a tailnet then use nginx to forward traffic from the VPS public ip to the tailnet interface

stream {
    server {
        listen 0.0.0.0:25565;
        proxy_pass your.servers.tailnet.ip:25565;
    }
}

stream {
    server {
        listen 0.0.0.0:25565;
        proxy_pass your.servers.tailnet.ip:25565;
    }
}

youll need a rule like this added to your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf the proxy pass ip being the tailscale ip of the device that is hosting the minecraft server

grgOP•2w ago

I believe I used rinetd for the same purposes, do you think nginx will be better?

Beef•2w ago

Never tried rinetd but nginx is mega lightweight and works great for me. Ping me if you need help with it

grgOP•6d ago

Hey there, tried this now, but when I try to restart nginx it shows this error

grgOP•6d ago

ok, I think I managed to get it working in the end It shows that the server is up, bu times out when I try to connect Nevermind, it was the server itself Holy guacamole it works And it works way better than rinetd

Beef•6d ago

Glad you got it sorted :p

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