Hosting Vaultwarden for external access

[Exodia]

Could current version of HexOS allow me to install Vaultwarden and have a personally-owned domain point to that password manager?

I'm currently not an early adopted, just investigating what HexOS could provide as it currently stands right now.

 

Thanks!

[PsychoWards]

Hey,

Yes this is possible, but requires some setup. You have to manually install Vaultwarden, there is no 1 click app, and then you also have to install a reverse proxy (again no 1 click app) which is redirecting the concerned traffic to your Vaultwarden server.

This does require that your subdomain is already (and always will) point to your router/proxy manager.

This is not a trivial setup but it's not impossible neither and there are many guides to get this running properly and you should also read into cloudflare, fail2ban or crowdsec and other security options to protect your then exposed server/setup.

[Exodia]

On 4/25/2025 at 5:21 PM, PsychoWards said:

Hey,

Yes this is possible, but requires some setup. You have to manually install Vaultwarden, there is no 1 click app, and then you also have to install a reverse proxy (again no 1 click app) which is redirecting the concerned traffic to your Vaultwarden server.

This does require that your subdomain is already (and always will) point to your router/proxy manager.

This is not a trivial setup but it's not impossible neither and there are many guides to get this running properly and you should also read into cloudflare, fail2ban or crowdsec and other security options to protect your then exposed server/setup.

Thanks @PsychoWards, from what I'm reading I'd have to setup Vaultwarden  & proxy manager on the TrueNAS side of HexOS? Would those installs be done directly into TrueNAS, on a VM set up first, or in Docker?



 

[PsychoWards]

1 hour ago, Exodia said:

Thanks @PsychoWards, from what I'm reading I'd have to setup Vaultwarden  & proxy manager on the TrueNAS side of HexOS?



 

Yes 🙂 

1 hour ago, Exodia said:

Would those installs be done directly into TrueNAS, on a VM set up first, or in Docker?

 

Depends on what your needs are, but as apps in truenas would probably be the easiest way.

[Exodia]

On 4/28/2025 at 1:12 PM, PsychoWards said:

Yes 🙂 

Depends on what your needs are, but as apps in truenas would probably be the easiest way.

Thanks again  @PsychoWards! Would you consider installing TrueNAS apps as easy to setup/configure/maintain as the HexOS-curated apps? All of these video demos for HexOS apps (Plex, immich) seem pretty easy to click and install, and I'd very much like to compare the complexity of installing those apps to installing TrueNAS apps.

 

[PsychoWards]

Hey @Exodia, unfortunately I cannot comment on this since I'm not using Truenas/Hexos to host my apps, maybe someone else can comment on this instead.