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Can't get Nginx reverse proxy to work (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm running a VPS on Oracle

My domain is managed by Cloudflare

I installed nginx reverse proxy manager in a Docker container with the following ports:

180:80
181:81
1443:443

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I port forwarded ports 180 and 1443, and I get the following message when going to PublicIP:180

Congratulations!
You've successfully started the Nginx Proxy Manager.

If you're seeing this site then you're trying to access a host that isn't set up yet.

Log in to the Admin panel to get started.

I installed an nginx server to serve as the test container, and I've added both the NPM and the nginx server to the same network in Docker.

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I get the following when accessing the nginx server (http://10.11.0.1:7676) via the said network:

Welcome to nginx!
If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.

For online documentation and support please refer to nginx.org.
Commercial support is available at nginx.com.

Thank you for using nginx.

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In Cloudflare, I set 2 A records, both of them unproxied:

mydomain.com         to     MyPublicIP
test.mydomain.com    to     MyPublicIP

and I've also tried setting a CNAME for the test.mydomain.com and pointing it to root with no luck.

When I ping mydomain.com, I can see my public IP.

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In NPM, I have the following settings:

Domain Name: test.mydomain.com
Scheme: http
Forward Hostname: 10.11.0.1
Forward Port: 7676
Block Common Exploits: True

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When I try visiting http://test.mydomain.com from multiple browsers and 2 different networks, I get nothing.

Also, I tried getting an SSL certificate but was met with an error, and now it looks like I've hit the hourly limit on that...so I'm at least trying to get http working while I wait.

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This is my first time trying NPM out, what am I missing? Help!

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The docs are pretty straightforward

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/reverse-proxy/

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Here's a barebones of what my nginx.conf looks like to do a reverse proxy

worker_processes 1;

error_log nginx_error.log;

events { worker_connections 1024; }

http { server { server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com; location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:9000; } listen 80; }

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but if you're running nginx inside a docker container you also need to expose the port in the container with -p flag. So your run command is something like docker run ... -p 80:80