Nginx Reverse Proxy Setup

This setup provides a reverse proxy for multiple services using docker. It uses Nginx as the reverse proxy and supports HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

Prepare

NOTE: The commands assume you are using Linux.

1. Run the contained script

chmod +x ./prepare.sh

./prepare.sh

2. Setup Environment

You can configure your nginx-reverse-proxy to either use HTTP or HTTPS. For publicly exposed services I heavily recommend using HTTPS.

2.1 HTTPS

File named .env add the following to the file:

COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.yml:docker-compose-https.yml

2.2 HTTP

By default this setup will expose the Nginx reverse proxy on the default HTTP port 80. If you want to change the port to a different value you can in file named .env, add the following to e.g. expose it over port 9000:

HTTP_PORT=9000

3. Setup additional config in Nginx

To add settings on a proxy-wide basis, add your configuration file in my-proxy.conf

Run

Starting Nginx Reverse Proxy

You can start the Nginx Reverse Proxy by running:

docker compose up -d