Easy SSL Certificates for Your Homelab Services (Using Nginx Proxy Manager & Cloudflare)

Easy SSL Certificates for Your Homelab Services

Tired of those annoying browser SSL warnings when accessing your homelab services?
With the right setup, you can have free HTTPS certificates for all your self-hosted apps — even if they run only on your local network.

Using Nginx Proxy Manager with Let’s Encrypt and a DNS challenge via Cloudflare, you can:

• 🔒 Secure every service in your homelab with HTTPS
• 🌍 Access services via friendly domain names (no more IPs!)
• 🚀 Automate certificate renewal without touching each service

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Why This Matters

• Better security → Encrypted connections, even on local network
• No SSL warning popups → Clean experience on all devices
• Easier access → Use proxmox.example.com instead of 192.168.1.50:8006

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💡 In the full guide, I cover:

• Installing Nginx Proxy Manager on Proxmox
• Setting up a wildcard SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt
• Configuring Cloudflare API tokens for DNS challenge
• Mapping your homelab services to friendly domain names
• Forcing SSL + enabling HTTP/2 for better performance

👉 Read the full tutorial here:
Easy SSL Certificates for Your Homelab Services

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💬 How are you currently securing your homelab services? Share your setup in the comments!