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Why does localtunnel.me redirect to https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/ #3

Open gene1wood opened 3 years ago

gene1wood commented 3 years ago

This repo's index.html links to localtunnel.me however when you browse to http://localtunnel.me/ it redirects to https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/ which is this fork of the localtunnel/www repo which contains these changes which modify references to localtunnel.me to loca.lt instead and the sponsor from courseoff to tunez.com

TheBoroer commented 3 years ago

Hey @gene1wood

I took over hosting the server for the localtunnel.me project for @defunctzombie. He still controls the localtunnel.me domain.

When taking over hosting, I needed full control over the domain in order to get free a Let's Encrypt Wildcard certificate (for *.localtunne.me subdomains) but only had a couple dns A records pointing to me from the original localtunnel.me domain.

I felt uncomfortable asking for full dns control over the domain since Roman doesn't know me personally (after all, I was just an internet stranger and it's his domain), I registered another domain loca.lt and got the wildcard for that domain.

I definitely want to make several improvements to the server/client project and ask for some PRs done but I need to find the time to do it. If there's PRs that won't break any backwards compatibility for others, feel free to @ me and I'll ask Roman to merge it in.

This repo doesn't need to be merged into upstream since it doesn't add anything new or valuable that benefits the community and others forking from here, it's just a personal fork :)

Hope that answers your questions :)

gene1wood commented 3 years ago

@TheBoroer thanks for those details, that makes sense.

I ask because I recently went through this sequence

What if you did this :

Have @defunctzombie delegate the ACME challenge domain name (_acme-challenge.localtunnel.me) to your server and you run the acme-dns service on your server. This would only require another couple DNS records in localtunnel.me and would allow you to issue wildcard certs for localtunnel.me (and no longer need loca.lt)

Ask @defunctzombie to change the www.localtunnel.me CNAME from pointing to localtunnel.me to instead point to localtunnel.github.io and have him enable the www.localtunnel.me custom domain on the localtunnel/www repo

Then you could PR your README changes minus the loca.lt domain name and change from your fork to this upstream localtunnel/www repo and then have your LoudTronix/cryous nginx server, instead of redirecting to https://theboroer.github.io/localtunnel-www/ redirect to www.localtunnel.me

Now things would look like this