Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx

kept by eddie oct 05

The article shows how to create self‑hosted HTTP tunnels using only OpenSSH remote port forwarding and nginx’s secure_link module to produce shareable, expiring HTTPS URLs.

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