I also knew nothing about self hosting, but wanted to move away from Google photos, and that eventually led me towards self-hosting and immich.

Most people recommend using something like Tailscale so you can access your server from anywhere. That wouldn’t necessarily work for me, because I wanted to be able to share links to pics and videos with friends/family who wouldnt be a part of my Tailscale network.

I ended up purchasing a cheap domain, and using cloudflare to allow me to share links broadly. (Because my family deserves better quality videos of my adorable children than the compressed crap that comes through in a group message between iOS and android. I have tried SO hard to convince them to move our group chat do a different platform but I have failed.). It’s probably ill-advised for somebody who knows as little as I do to go this route, but I’m filled with the un-earned confidence of a middle-aged white man.

Oh dang. The applicable parts of that would’ve saved me a lot of headache. Thanks for sharing.

I mean, you could still tell them their photos are encrypted 😉😉

(JK I wouldn’t)

I tried the larger file size, but my internet is slow and google kept pulling the plug on my download. Even with a download manager it was un-resumable. Finally, I just re-exported at 2 GB and now I have to babysit the download of 23 different files.

Hey! Running the cloudflare tunnel through systemd right on the machine worked wonders! Thanks! Probably not the most secure way, but at least I know I can play with networks at a later date. For now it appears to be up and running. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks. I was hoping (but not sure) that cloudflare would act as a proxy by sending the traffic to the port I wanted, and that would sort things out (since it’s all running off of one machine). Still, maybe setting up Nginx is the way to go. I’ll have to put that a little ways down the to do list.

Thanks for reaching out, I appreciate it.

The logs just say 2023-12-16T03:32:18Z ERR error="Unable to reach the origin service. The service may be down or it may not be responding to traffic from cloudflared: dial tcp 192.168.1.111:2283...

Assuming it is the problem of Docker containers not being able to talk to each other, I added the option --network="bridge" to the docker command that launches the cloudflare tunnel. Then in the docker-compose file for Immich, I added the line network_mode: bridge to each service. No dice. I think next I’ll try installing the cloudflare tunnel as a service directly on that computer.

Thanks for taking the time to help out, I appreciate it.