Thanks for the reply. It was very thought provoking and I think I have done it.   I have my own domain and as I mentioned in my OP, I use it to serve the sites I want to access externally. I considered a seperate instance of nginx, local IP's in the public DNS record etc etc. I was sat with my glass of wine last night and I settled on the fact that I MUST have been overthinking this. This is a basic access issue. Then I stumbled on it ...   I setup the application via the rev