[the_snooze]

I do something similar with my home server, but with a WireGuard split tunnel. Much easier to set up and keep active all the time (i.e., on my phone).

Nginx handles proxying and TLSing all HTTP traffic. It also enforces access rules: my services can only be reached from my home subnet or VPN subnet. Everywhere else gets a 403.

[Karrot_Kream]

Why not just have nginx listen on the Wireguard interface itself? That way you drop all traffic coming inbound from sources not on your Wireguard network and you don't even have to send packets in response nor let external actors know you have a listener on that port.