I’ve read that online, but I assumed it was exaggerated. You’re personally witnessing students struggling with files and folders? Because that’s simultaneously hilarious and a bit scary.
I work in the software industry, and sometimes I worry that I’m going to be overtaken by the newer generations, and other times I feel like I have nothing to worry about.
I’m going to cast another vote for a reverse proxy, such as NginxProxyManager. It’s really easy to set everything up, and they’re usually very easy to run in Docker/Podman.
One thing to note: if you end up with a domain with mandatory HSTS, you’ll have to use DNS-based certificate generation rather than HTTP based, since unencrypted HTTP is blocked (chicken/egg problem to get HTTPS working). It’s not hard, but you have to be aware of that limitation.