Problem while reverse proxying jellyfin

[francislavoie]

Are you trying to connect to your server from inside of the same network? Try connecting to it from your phone over your cellular connection (not wifi) to see if it works.

To quote Matt’s guide on home networks:

@matt

If, from within your own network, you cannot access your server, but you can from the outside, then it is likely your router does not support hairpin NAT (or does not have it enabled). I’ve encountered this problem with multiple ISP-provided routers and fixed it by running my own DNS server that resolves my public IP address to an internal address (and gives me redundancy against DNS provider outages too).

What I do personally is I also also expose my server on some other port like 8000 so it’s accessible inside my local network over HTTP, but running a DNS server is a better solution if you’re willing to spend a bit more time setting that up. Here’s how it looks for me:

jellyfin.example.com, :8000 {
	reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8096
}