Back From Self Hosting Networking Hell and Back

Back From Self Hosting Networking Hell and Back⁠§Last night I ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade on my Raspberry Pi and went to bed. This morning, Indiekit fails to login with an error: TypeError: Fetch Failed. InvalidRequestError. No bearer token provided by request. I did all the usual Docker compose restart commands (down, up --force-rebuild, build --no-cache) but nothing worked. Half a day disappeared and yet I was still at square one. I could not pinpoint the cause of the error, which part of the workflow was causing the error. Was it Caddy’s reverse proxies, Tailscale, Docker networking? My bet is networking and not the Indiekit config. After feeling super defeated and giving up—I already switched out my Indiekit’s Indieauth lines from <head> to use Indiekey.id in the meantime to be able to continue logging into services with my own domain. I went for dinner, annoyed at not being able to fix the thing I find most difficult with self-hosting: networking. After dinner, I…

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