Help configuring pfSense

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Hi,
I need some help with pfSense, or I think that’s the problem.
If I try to access my Home Assistant or Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) with the https://domain.duckdns.org:8123 or https://domain.duckdns.org:7277 from the local network, I get a time-out error, if I try from another internet connection the links work as intended (https works). If I use the https://192.168.1.185.duckdns.org:8123, I get access with the certificate warning.
I have the same setup on my home network and I don’t have any problems there. The only thing different is pfSense.
pfSense is running Suricata, ClamAV and is the DNS provider for the network. The ports are forwarded as shown

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Please guide me in the right direction!
Also, pfSense keeps redirecting port 80 and 443 to itself (web login). I tried using nginx, can’t get a certificate and redirects don’t work. HA with let’s encrypt worked on port 80.
Thanks

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This happens because when you look up your DNS name it returns the public IP address which won’t work on your internal network.

One solution is to enable NAT reflection but a simpler and probably better solution is to create a record on your local DNS server for this domain name to point to the local IP address you want to connect to. If you’re using pfsense as your local DNS server then you can do this in the hosts override section at the bottom of the DNS resolver page.

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So many options in pfSense, I added the domain and IP in DNS Resolver and it works.

Thanks for the help!