Caddy / Reverse Proxy for Rustdesk server

[kylebial0]

Is there any known way of hosting the rustdesk server behind a reverse proxy?

I have done a good few hours of testing and research, and from what I can tell, there doesn't appear to be any good way of doing so.

My reason for wanting to do this is because I am looking to host the rustdesk server on my homelab behind a Caddy reverse proxy, mostly because I do not want to expose the additional ports required natively by Rustdesk.

I look forward to hearing the communities thoughts on this topic, and to see if it has been successfully accomplished in the past.

[alexipeck]

I've gone down the same rabbit hole, the primary limitation I've found is Caddy not natively supporting UDP required by the HBBS (ID Server) binary. There's a project which could provide a solution (https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4). I haven't managed to get it to work yet :(

Nginx should be capable of this.

[xlionjuan]

You could use Traefik, but unless you implement IP ACL, reverse proxy WON'T increase security.

[tschettervictor]

Simply build caddy with this plugin which allows layer 4 proxying using the caddyfile. Here is a snippet from one of my configs. This would be the global block.

{
	layer4 {
		tcp/:8189 {
			proxy {
				to 192.168.1.171:8189
			}
		}
	}
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}