I enabled HTTPS to secure self-hosted apps with Tailscale - here’s how you can do it

I grabbed free TLS certificates from Tailscale to enable HTTPS for the self-hosted apps in my home lab.

May 15, 2025 - 19:42
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I enabled HTTPS to secure self-hosted apps with Tailscale - here’s how you can do it

Dipping my feet in the self-hosting trend is great. But when a browser pops the "not secure" error, I worry about running my humble stack over HTTP, even though it's on my local network. Since I share some of them with my family, it's hard to discourage them from clicking on suspicious links while my apps run on plain HTTP. I tried enabling HTTPS with self-signed certificates for my self-hosted apps and services, but I kept hitting the wall.