Hello, I have a question regarding the usage of a reverse-proxy which is part of a docker network.

I currently use Nginx Proxy Manager as a reverse-proxy for all my services hosted in docker. This works great since I can simply forward using each containers name. I have some services however (e.g. homeassistant) which are hosted separately in a VM or using docker on another device.

Is it possible to use the same reverse-proxy for those services as well? I haven’t found a way to forward to hosts outside of the proxies docker network (except for using the host network setting which I would like to avoid)

  • rambos@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    For homeassistant I had to add this in configuration.yaml

    http:
      use_x_forwarded_for: true
      trusted_proxies:
        - 172.21.0.2
    

    Where 172.21.0.2 is my NPM docker IP

    Edit: its NPM IP and not HA like I wrote first time

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      10 months ago

      This. Also, make sure the proxy is proxying websocket traffic as well. I do it with pure nginx like this:

      server {
          listen 80;
          server_name example.com;
      
          location / {
              proxy_pass http://192.168.1.100:8123/;
              proxy_set_header Host $host;
              proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
              proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
              proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
      
              # WebSocket support
              proxy_http_version 1.1;
              proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
              proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
          }
      }
      
    • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      10 months ago

      Thanks. I tried it like this and still get a 400 Bad Request error.

      Someone below mentioned adding some more IPs to the trusted_proxies list so I tried that as well without result. The IP I used for the reverse-proxy is the IP listed in portainer under the network for the proxy container. Just to reiterate, the container is running on a different device than homeassistant (technically same device but different VM but that shouldn’t make a difference).

      http:
        use_x_forwarded_for: true
        trusted_proxies:
          - 192.168.208.2 # IP of reverse-proxy in its network
          - 192.168.208.0/20 # Subnet of proxy docker network
          - 192.168.1.103 # HA IP
      
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        10 months ago

        My NPM window looks the same as yours. Im not sure mate, I would try disabling firewall just to see is that the problem. Im not expert in that area and nothing else comes to my mind sorry. Im also running everything under one host