1y ago

What runs on your base domain?

I have many services running under subdomains but my host domain still returns a 404 and im not sure what to put there.

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I'm embarrassed to say the default page. Many moons ago I used to host a wordpress blog there but I'm exceptionally lazy and rarely ever posted. The upkeep on Wordpress just wasn't worth the hassle.
Every so often I think about starting a basic tech blog for those, "hey here's how I fixed this weird edge case", posts that have saved my butt 1000x over.
- Same here. It just says "nginx has been successfully installed" or something like that. It serves the appropriate directories or redirects to the respective virtual machines for other (sub) domains.

I just have a static page that I randomly change - you can see mine here. In this case I was testing the idea of having text within an SVG for better scaling from mobile to desktop, and also I'm loving orange and purple at the moment for some reason! Oh, and I was testing automated deployments from CI/CD, so I always use my own base domain with those first tests!

I'm using very advanced technology and my base domain is actually served directly on the client side. It's the very extreme version of edge computing.
When you visit it, you get some version of the "site not found" page. I just didn't bother to set any A or AAAA record for the base.

A dashboard of available services just seems like the correct choice to me, so I use Heimdall

A index.html file that says "There's nothing here". Not even a special http status. I have subdomains with freshrss, dokuwiki, XBackBone, and whatever I'm tinkering with, but I can't be bothered to maintain anything public. I guess I have personal websites I haven't touched since 2012?

It's a redirect to my www Subdomain, which currently runs a Wordpress, but I'm developing my custom website to put there. So, it runs my personal website.

Mine returns a 404, but on purpose. Everything I want internet-facing is behind a cloudflare tunnel on appropriate subdomains.
- I do something similar, then fail2ban immediately bans the ip for a few hours. The only people going to my root domain are people i do not want sniffing around. It also does the same if you dont pass in my domain at all (and are just hitting random ips).
  
  That's great!

I installed WordPress just to tinker with: https://robotra.sh
I've been looking at some static page options as well as some FOSS alternatives, just haven't pulled the trigger since I'm not super concerned about it.
Ultimately though my primary domain actually just points to NGINX Proxy Manager which hands off to everything else.

I like this question! I had several subdomains running and didn’t have a clue what to do with my host domain for the longest time.
I ended up pointing my host domain at an instance of searx-ng.

One of these days, I plan to build up a neat blog with some static site generator like Nikola. Or maybe host documentation about everything I do with bookstack or wiki.js.
For now, it just redirects to a rickroll.

It's just a page that displays the visitors ip address. I've been trying to get it to work with curl like how icanhazip.com works to display the ip in command line but haven't made it that far yet.

I use nginx to handle the routing to different systems and docker ports so it helps when I fiddle with that config to see “server online” that I shoved in a basic html page for the base domain.
I used to run Nextcloud there but I’ve had so much trouble with nextcloud that I barely use it at all now and I worried it was too easily discoverable for something I wasn’t confident was configured properly.

I just leave the default "this is a website hosted with x" page as the default, since I only use it as a file repository.

Used to have nginx point the default location to an abyss web server, but I didn't carry the setup forward when I upgraded the OS. It's a 503 now.
Several other locations are pointing to:
my homebrewed file server. Initially to replace abtssws's piss poor directory listing performance, but now a frankensteinian being that has a comic reader of my own build, specs, and preference.
an icecast server streaming whatever my foobar2k is playing, so I can listen to my library on the go.

I had a nice layout for a while that used Iframes to access all my services. Made things easier for my family they just went to the main domain and there was a menu that would take them to ll the services no back button needed. Iframes aren't really secure from my understanding tho.
Interesting about that page was I hade ChatGPT generate the HTML for it

Right now it’s Homepage, but I have an Apache web server I want to move onto my base domain

I just run a hand-coded listing of my services, each with two links: the public subdomain and the internal ip:port.
I have tried semi-clever tools (like homarr) but they're just not worth the effort. Simple html+css wins.

I pipe fortune through cowsay through lolcat through aha with header and footers going through toilet.
And that makes for a very useful home page 🤣

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