README.md

Home Server NGINX Proxy Example

This repo contains an example NGINX config and Dockerfile similar to the one which I used in my home server without portforwarding article.

This is intended to be used on a public server which can proxy web requests to your home server via a VPN link, as I discuss in my article.

Please note that this is a few years old now so may be slightly out of date - pull requests and issue suggestions are welcome, but please remember the context for which this was intended, as illustrated by my article.

Running

• Ensure ports 80 and 443 are mapped to your Docker host (i.e.: available on the internet)
• Map /letsencrypt-challenge to your Lets Encrypt webroot directory.
• Map /ssl to your Lets Encrypt data directory.

SSL

• I use the LetsEncrypt Manager Docker image to automatically renew my SSL certs. Both containers will need to share the ... and ... directories. The .well-known path is made available via NGINX to allow successful domain renewal.
• To setup DHParams for your domains, use openssl dhparam -out dhparam.pem 4096 as specified in https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Strong_SSL_Security_On_nginx.html