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Nginx Proxy Manager

Introduction

Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) is a reverse proxy maanger you can use this to replace IP-addresses with domainnames.
You can use .local or get a free domain name with a service like duckdns. For example you can use a domainname for your Portainer installation.

Within NPM you are also secure your websites by using SSL-certificates from letsencrypt and doing a DNS on your recently aquired domain.

Installing

I am using Portainer and Docker compose to install NPM. (I might move this container to a LXC container on my Proxmox server.)

  1. Navigate to your Portainer instance
  2. Select your environment and navigate to Stacks
  3. Click on Add stack
  4. Give the stack a name select the Web editor as build method
  5. Paste the Docker Compose configuration in the Web editor
    NPM Config
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    services:
  app:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      # These ports are in format <host-port>:<container-port>
      - '80:80' # Public HTTP Port
      - '443:443' # Public HTTPS Port
      - '81:81' # Admin Web Port
      # Add any other Stream port you want to expose
      # - '21:21' # FTP
    environment:
      # Mysql/Maria connection parameters:
      DB_MYSQL_HOST: "db"
      DB_MYSQL_PORT: 3306
      DB_MYSQL_USER: "npm-user"
      DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD: "FancyPassword"
      DB_MYSQL_NAME: "npm"
      # Uncomment this if IPv6 is not enabled on your host
      DISABLE_IPV6: 'true'
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
      - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
    depends_on:
      - db

  db:
    image: 'jc21/mariadb-aria:latest'
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'npm'
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'npm'
      MYSQL_USER: 'npm-user'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'FancyPassword'
      MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE: '1'
    volumes:
      - ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql
  6. Then click on Deploy stack

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