Reverse proxy without port forwarding?

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Hey guys,

I wanted to get some help on something I am trying to knock out. I have two home assistant installations. One at my house that has a local NGINX installation that is forwarded from my Amazon AWS machine via port forwarding, and one at my apartment where I don’t have access to port forwarding.

The installation at my house works great, and I would like a similar setup at my apartment. I have been using Nabu Casa, but I would like to also make my other local web servers at the apartment accessible in the same manner as my house by getting NGINX accessible.

Is there an addon or program that can reverse tunnel traffic from my AWS instance on my domain to my apartment HA NGINX instance without port forwarding?

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What is preventing you from using port forwarding and why can’t you forward to the standard 443 SSL/TLS port?

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I am using apartment provided internet which does not let me port forward. I use port forwarding at my house.

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You need an ability to accept incoming connections for a remote access to work.
If you can not accept them directly on your router, then you need to make an always-on connection from inside to another site that can accept incoming connections and have that forward them over the always-on connection.
The NabuCasa is such always on connection, but there are VPN services that can do the same and you might also be able to use your house connection for enabling an always-on VPN connection initiated from the apartment connection.

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You could use the Cloudflare tunnel add-on, which won’t use your AWS instance but may otherwise solve your problem.

Otherwise you’d be looking at a VPN add-on to connect your HA to your AWS instance, so that it can reach HA.

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