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This might be an odd setup, but I prefer Pangolin for the easy deployment of a combined Reverse Proxy and VPN but also wanted to play around with Netbird, which provides a mesh VPN.

So I have Pangolin installed on a VPS and connected to my home server which is running the Newt client.
Then I’ve installed Netbird on my home server using the Self-hosting Quickstart Guide. I choose “Other/Manual” when it came to selecting a Reverse Proxy and created the respective public resource in Pangolin for your subdomain. Just add multiple targets for multiple endpoints and enable Advanced Mode:

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Just make sure to select h2c instead of http for /signalexchange.SignalExchange and*/management.ManagementService. And obviously replace the 192.168.178.123 with your IP address.

Then start the docker-compose.yml and browse to your subdomain to register your initial account. Done!

https://youtu.be/edYQOxIQIGM

Netbird has recently added a reverse proxy, so this seems unnecessary. I was also thinking between netbird and pangolin but i think i would now go with netbird, when i finally have the time to set it up and ditch my current solution with cloudflare tunnels.

True, but it’s still in beta and Pangolin has other useful features like built in geoblocking and authentication.

Well, geoblocking seems like a really useful feature. Thanks for mentioning it 👍