4 - Access Private Network Resources

The Server Side installation came with some goodies only accessible when connected to the VPN.

A quick note

So we are on our private VPN running up in the cloud.

There are apps and stuff already running that we can connect to and configure.

These services are only available to devices on the VPN. So if you disconnect you can't access.

This is one form of server security.

The big boys do this in corporate just on a much bigger scale.

So you are on the VPN now

Let's access some private services from your browser (assuming your local has a gui. if not, then use curl).

So let's point our browser at a protected site on the VPS. We'll just connect to Gitea, an open source source code control server. It's like GitHub basically.

this will open your browser to the internal portal. When you see an admin dashboard, then you are good. the configuration is simple and outside the scope of this article.

Private Media Server

this will open your browser to the internal media server. When you see a page that says "emby", then you are good. the configuration is simple and outside the scope of this article.

PhpMyAdmin Database Manager

There is a mariadb server running. and it's go

username: root

password: aggiepride

Gitea Private Source Code Repository

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Todo List

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Private Wordpress blog

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Valorant Work Space

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