I’ve recently set up a Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) to store the data for my Bluesky account. I wanted to host it on my server alongside the many other web apps, databases, and many other services. I additionally wanted to use my top-level domain as my handle.
I started out following the install guide on the official PDS repo and it initially started out pretty well. However, I pretty quickly ran into some issues where the default config didn’t work for me.

Casey Primozic

A practical walkthrough of self-hosting a Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) on a server that already runs multiple services. Covers replacing the default Caddy reverse proxy with NGINX, configuring path-based proxying so the PDS coexists with other apps on the same domain, enabling WebSocket proxying (critical for PDS functionality), resolving 'Invalid Handle' errors, working around the limitation that prevents starting with a top-level domain handle, and setting up SMTP for email verification.

Notes on Self Hosting a Bluesky PDS Alongside Other Services