Nginx setup
Docker network
- Create a network
my-services
with following commanddocker network create my-services
- This network will be used by all the services that will be proxied by nginx.
- It is created so that its easier for us to connect to the services from nginx just by their container name.
Create nginx proxy manager container
- Create a directory
apps
in home dir - Inside it, create following directories:
apps/nginx
apps/nginx/data
apps/nginx/letsencrypt
(its only required if you want to use letsencrypt)
- Create a file
apps/nginx/docker-compose.yml
with following content:
version: '3.8'
services:
nginx:
container_name: 'nginx'
image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- '80:80'
- '81:81'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- ./nginx/data:/data
- ./nginx/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
networks:
- my-services
networks:
my-services:
name: 'my-services'
external: true
- Run
docker-compose up -d
to start nginx proxy manager.
Configure nginx proxy manager from browser
- Go to http://your-server-ip:81 and login with deafult credentials:
- Email:
[email protected]
- Password:
changeme
- Email:
- Follow the prompts to change the password & email.
- Navigate to http://your-server-ip:80 to see if nginx is working.