{"id":781,"date":"2017-08-06T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2017-08-06T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:14:25","slug":"how-to-enable-secured-remote-management-of-d-link-dir-series-router-with-certbot-nginx-raspbian-jessie-lite-and-raspberry-pi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/how-to-enable-secured-remote-management-of-d-link-dir-series-router-with-certbot-nginx-raspbian-jessie-lite-and-raspberry-pi-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable secured remote management of D-Link DIR series router with Certbot, nginx, Raspbian Jessie Lite and Raspberry Pi 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have a Internet subscription at home, chances are you will have a router that helps to enable computers, big and small, to access the Internet concurrently. To enable my computers to access the Internet concurrently, my Internet service provider gave me a D-Link DIR-868L router<\/a> which had been serving me well over 2 years. <\/p>\n

One way for me to access the router when I was not at home is to enable remote management by checking the Enable Remote Management<\/strong> in the ADMINISTRATION<\/strong> section of the TOOLS<\/strong> tab. <\/p>\n

However, this feature activate remote management through HTTP through a designated port. Since HTTP communication is not encrypted, it is not safe for me to use this remote management feature from an unfamiliar network.<\/p>\n

Since I had created a reverse proxy server with nginx, Raspbian Jessie Lite and Raspberry Pi 3<\/a> and installed Certbot on it<\/a>, I reckoned that I can enable remote management of my D-Link DIR series router to be performed in a secured manner.<\/p>\n

This post documents how to enable secured remote management of D-Link DIR series router with Certbot, nginx, Raspbian Jessie Lite and Raspberry Pi 3.<\/p>\n

Building your reverse proxy server with nginx, Raspbian Jessie Lite and Raspberry Pi 3<\/h2>\n

If you do not have a copy of Raspbian Jessie Lite on a Raspberry Pi 3, you may want to follow my previous article on how to build your reverse proxy server with nginx, Raspbian Jessie Lite and Raspberry Pi 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Installing Certbot on Raspbian Jessie Lite<\/h2>\n

We will need Certbot for deploying Let's Encrypt certificates on our reverse proxy server. You should install Certbot on your Raspbian Jessie Lite<\/a> before continuing on with this post.<\/p>\n

Making your Raspberry Pi 3 reverse proxy server accessible from outside my home network through HTTPS<\/h2>\n

Once we have built our Raspberry Pi 3 reverse proxy server, the next step will be to direct all traffic made to port 80 and port 443 of the public IP address that our home router had acquired from our Internet Service Provider. To do so for D-Link DIR series routers, we will access the web management portal via http:\/\/192.168.0.1<\/code> from one of our computers that is connected to the private network of our router:<\/p>\n

\"D-Link <\/p>\n

Assuming that the private IP Address of your reverse proxy server<\/a> is 192.168.0.127, we can do so with the following steps:<\/p>\n