Subj : Not just BBS Support question
To   : All
From : claw
Date : Sat Aug 27 2022 11:05 am

I'm not exactly sure how to explain my question so they and stick it out.

The question is really more around Web Virtual hosts.  It does pertain to my BBS, however it even more so to the Noverdu Network as a whole.  I didn't see any Other Support forums so I'm posting it here.  Hopefully Avon doesn't get irritated.

First I love building servers and tinkering with them.  As time has gone on I have found and played with a ton of different softwares.  I have generally just created different ports.  This works for me internally as I can easily remember them easily, however I constatnly get asked by my patrons which one was that port for again?  I want to help them by using subdomains to redirect to virtual hosts.  

I know if you start out with this its not too hard to setup.  However I didn't
Here is my setup.  The End goal would be to have a www.noverdu.com that can show what each of the services are and have links to them.

nextcloud.noverdu.com:80 goes to my Nextcloud file and chat server.  This generally is for a few of my friends and I to just share files and chat on.  I used port 80 on this because its the one I want to make sure is easy to get to.

noverdu.com:88 goes to my radio station.  

noverdu.com:808 goes to my BBS's ftelnet access.

As time goes on I will want to add more to play around with.  I realize how I need to learn and start using virtualhosting so I can separate the services easily and let everyone just use port 80 for everything.  Its easier to remember www.noveru.com goes to Home page and radio.noverdu.com goes to radio and so on.  instead of all the ports.  I only have 1 IP address and eventhough its not technically static I have have the same IP for over 10 years and it even followed my though a move.  

I want to create a server just to be a webserver now so I can try and fix this spaghetti of a setup now.

I want www.noverdu.com to be a new server on port 80 so I can have a place where everyone can go and be directed to the right server/port, however if someone comes in on nextcloud.noverdu.com I still want that to be directed at the server with that. system

My setup...
I have a Dell R815 Server with 64 cores and 192G of ram, running VMWare.  I like keeping severs separate so if one has an  issue it doesn't take down everything at once.  

I have an HP Micro Server handling just my PFSense so if I need to take down the big server and work on it we don't loose INTERNET. The hole family is in chaos if that happens :). 

I want to create www.noverdu.com now and unsure how to clean this up and go about it in a way that doesn't disrupt the network or addresses people are already using.

end goal is to have www.noverdu.com:80 be able to have links to redirect to all the services.  I still want nextcloud.noverdu.com:80 to keep its access on port 80.  From what I have goggled you can do this with virtual hosting and a server running NGINIX or something like this to get the initial connection on port 80 and then redirect it where it belongs internally.  on the network.  Can this be done with apache as I am more familiar with that?  

I'm going to be done rambling now I'm sure a ton of you are like TLDR.  Would be cool if someone can at least point me in the right direction.  All the things I google looks like you need to start with the virtualhosting not add it.

Thanks in advance to all that stuck with it :)

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