Vanilla nginx is still too far over my head, but Nginx Proxy Manager makes easy work of it.
A lot of people like Caddy but I’ve never tried it. The config files are much simpler and it auto-renews certificates (but so does Nginx Proxy Manager).
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itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Did you follow a specific guide or refer to specific documentation for the reverse proxy? I’ve tried (admittedly not super hard) multiple times to set one up with nginx with no luck.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 days ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Straight up reverse proxy isn’t bad. I think it’s only a couple lines in a file.
But when you want to add let’s encrypt and dynamic DNS. It starts to get a little bit meatier.
Hominine@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s been a minute since I’ve done this in proxmox, but this video should help get you over the hump. Good luck!
UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
If you've got a docker host, nginx proxy manager is super simple. Aside from a super basic docker compose file, the rest of the config can be done via the web gui.
If you're on proxmox, there's a helper script for creating an nginx proxy manager lxc, and the rest can be done via the web gui as well.
guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
As much as I hate to admit it, I asked ChatGPT, because like you, I couldn’t find any good tutorials/guides about setting it up, ultimately ChatGPT gave me exactly the information I needed, if you need some help I can send a template config thingy later
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Providing documentation to something that you don’t know is one of its few really solid uses. If it misses a detail or doesn’t get it right on the first try, it’s still probably faster than you starting from scratch, RTFM.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
No worries. But be sure to research what you setup for it being sane or secure.
As for myself: I had significant help from a fellow dude on discord answering many of my stupid questions.
Everyone had to begin at one point ;)