How to view clips from outside my home network?

[KevinTyrrell]

I've installed Docker and Clipface. Upon typing in my local IP address 10.0.0.151 and port 80, I'm able to view my clips at the address 10.0.0.151:80. I can view and play them from any device as long as I use that URL.

However how do I link my clips to others who are not on my home network? I see from the readme there are ways to have a url that begins with https://clipface.com, however I cannot find any specific directions on how to accomplish this. Going to https://clipface.com yields a Problem loading webpage error after timing out.

I was able to port forward port 80, then via whatsmyip.org, connect to it via my.public.ip.address.here:80. However this is going to scare people when I send them a direct IP address. There must be a cleaner way to do this, e.g. https://clipsafe.com/user/KevinTyrrell/ or something.

[Hubro]

Sounds like you just need to buy a domain name and point it to your IP address 🙂 Use any domain name registrar (Google Domains, GoDaddy, Namecheat etc.) and point the A record of the domain to your IP address.

Clipface is entirely an open source, self hosted project, I don't offer any services. What you see on the front page is an example of a NGINX reverse-proxy config with SSL enabled, for those who want to use HTTPS. If you just want to share clips with friends then HTTPS is probably unnecessary.