Nginx Proxy Manager - How-To Installation and Configuration

[@christianlempa]

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[@kavithak1138]

Thanks for the video. I have issue with database like below Error. can you help me out. Error while trying to initialise the database: An exception occurred while executing a query: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 4047 InnoDB refuses to write tables with ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED or KEY_BLOCK_SIZE.

[@markstanchin1692]

@@kavithak1138 I have the same issue. It involves editing in the md config file but I don’t know how to do it inside a docker container which was in a compose stack.

[@amarnathadvocate2968]

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[@iamrage4753]

Hi Christian would this be the same process if using podman with fedora?

[@Ghost_Cat174]

@@markstanchin1692 use portainer and attach a console/terminal to the container. edit: or just dont use -d at the end of the docker-compose command

[@shugabaabrahamwuta1833]

2 years down the line and this is still an invaluable resource.

[@amosgiture]

It does not do everything but what it does it does very very well. The certificate auto-renewal and the ability to perform almost all reverse proxy functions on the GUI is just too good. However, apart from the initial setup, the official documentation is almost non-existent.

[@Seth-g3d]

Each time when I try to found something in another tuto, yours gave me the right solution always. I’ll stay here forever

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@galhindi9257]

I've just finished building the mail server after 2-3 days of headaches, with iredmail and manage that while hosting a website. Can't believe I found it after :P thanks! keep the good work.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! I will do 😁

[@dravokivich]

Thanks man! Was trying to figure this out over the last few days and the little bit of extra details you shared on this video helped a lot. Particularly when you pushed to explain how dependant it was, for the same networks to be used.

[@christianlempa]

You’re welcome ! Glad it helped :)

[@kiritoast8377]

You save my life ! I was stuck for 1 week before watching your video. I had a port configuration problem (port 8080, 8181, 4443 instead of 80, 81, 443) because of the image configuration page on dockerHub

[@christianlempa]

Glad I could help mate 😉

[@jeffrisdon2803]

Has anyone ever gotten a bad gateway error when attempting to login for the first time? thanks!

[@christianlempa]

That's usually when the connection with the database isn't working

[@SirOmarTorres]

The yaml file is outdated. Use the one in the docs for NPM. Fixed this issue for me.

[@gianniskleanthous3268]

so after docker compose up -d i can reach the webui and when i try to login with the default creds i get bad gateway.. from what i've seen online its supposed to also have a config.json file which i dont, anyone with some clear instuctions on that? i have seen no such step in this video so im a bit confused

[@0983bozo]

It would be really nice if NPM was able to scan existing nginx entries on install and import them into the manager. I set up my nginx the manual way a long time ago and I really can't be bothered to now reset them all up through the manager. Shame though as it would be nice to have a UI to manage them all

[@malborboss]

You can always use something like terraform/pulumi. This will be one time effort but after that you can migrate to other tools if you want as you will have ip:host mappings in one place.

[@0983bozo]

@@malborboss I ended up switching to Traefik, lol.

[@huzefamustafa5326]

Just start working on managing multiple docker containers, your content is really helpful. Thanks

[@christianlempa]

That's awesome 😎👍 thanks for sharing

[@nfctinken]

Thank you so much for this video, as well as your others for Docker, Docker-Compose, etc., as they have truly helped me out. I am a novice in Linux, so showing all the steps, as well as explaining them, was fantastic. Cheers!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! I'm glad it helps you :)

[@nfctinken]

@@christianlempa one question, do you know how I can set my specific docker-compose item to restart on reboot? I noticed when rebooting that system that NPM was not available again until I ran the up -d command. Thank you!

[@rgrf]

Thank you Christian for providing a fast way to understand what, how and why. Please could you soon explain how containers, stack and networks fit together.

[@christianlempa]

Great suggestion bro! I will make a future video about docker Networks, may take some weeks though

[@Ematuresco]

@@christianlempa ich bekomme bei 4:34 die Meldung bad gateway, nach dem ich die Zugangsdaten eingebe :(

[@bryonbrill]

You gained a subscriber there is tons of content here to be consumed in just one video! You sir, are amazing!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@qiuyue4082]

Awesome content, I was looking for a confirmation of the docker network rule and you explained really clear.

[@christianlempa]

Glad it was helpful!

[@helioradial]

Fantastic work Christian, I have just started diving into docker. Thank you for the content, I have learnt so much from it!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoy the content :)

[@djKenpLan09]

I get a "Bad Gateway" when I try to login into Nginx Proxy Manage web-gui. Anyone else getting this that can help me out? The container logs dont show much

[@Hasansaid51]

I got the same error last night, apparently downgrading NPM image helps. I’m gonna try it later on today

[@calvinjeffrey6966]

​​@@Hasansaid51Hey did downgrading the npm image work?

[@th3nolo]

Nice tutorial I have figure it out how to make it work with docker compose and it was hella fun.

[@AngriestEwok]

Sounds great. If only it actually worked for SSL certificate grabbing for digital ocean. I ended up installing nginx on it's own and doing everything on the command line.

[@Omn1Slash]

Thank you for the great tutorial! Very helpful, and quite entertaining!

[@christianlempa]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bigbear187uk]

Appreciate the video Christian, thanks for putting this together!

[@jairvandersterre1002]

I recently set this up aswell! It's a really awesome tool but it can sometimes corrupt your proxies, so beware. If you get a 502, it's not because your webapp isn't giving an invalid response. I think it's a bug. Just try to set it up and double check your advanced tab for any corruptions :D

[@christianlempa]

Not sure what you mean, works for me 😜

[@simmexx]

Yepp, i get 502 aswell. going to bash my head against this today and hopefully will get an awnser later today ;)

[@christianlempa]

502 is the communication between proxy and target failed for some reason, either http/https, wrong ip or similar

[@simmexx]

I was storing all my volumes on my NAS, and apparently i have some issues with authorization there since the DB wont write. I changed this to save locally on the docker-host and it worked like a charm.

[@dtardis]

This is a great video! Now I need to get this setup with my home server!

[@christianlempa]

thx :)

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great video. I keep coming here every while to review

[@GorkemYildirim]

Very good solution for multiple subdomains.

[@bautistabaiocchi-lora1339]

just found your channel. really solid videos. love the energy!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you 😁

[@hanslossman]

Great content! Thanks for aweome tutorials and solutions that just work great.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you buddy 😊

[@metamototomo]

Amazing tutorial. Thank you, Chris 😊

[@photozen8398]

Thank you very much, bonus was this easy LET'S cert implementation I was looking for, great explanation for layman like me…!

[@khalidelgazzar]

Very helpful especially for joking the np-m network and calling via name not ip addr

[@NLG_FR]

Works great man ! Thanks for the lesson.

[@livingmadscientistlife]

Keep coding and rocking in the free world, outstanding work mate! Have a good one and cheers!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you bro! Cheers

[@m6t6ng6]

AWESOME VIDEO! THANKS

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@victorcomposes]

Why I'm I only seeing your channel now🤪, thank you for your great content.

[@gabscar1]

Thanks for the video. I learned something and found it easy to follow and set up reverse proxies. I don't quite understand why you use docker, though. I'm running mine in a dedicated lxc.

[@christianlempa]

awesome

[@TheGreatestMajesty]

Been running npm for 3 years now. What happens is, with my setup every 3 months is, I get a '502 Bad Gateway' on all new host I try to setup after that point. Have not figured out how to fix as of yet.

[@jared4670]

Well this looks great. I have been using an old version of ajenti with an nginx plugin to handle proxies but it's so outdated. Gonna take a look at this

[@ipstacks11]

I watch these videos at .75 speed. The talking is a bit fast for me and the slight accent throws me a some, but at a little slower speed it's very watchable. If this wasn't technical content and he used more pictures to help show what is going on, I could probably watch it full speed. For me, anytime you are talking about a computer network, pictures help a lot. Flow diagrams are good for this.

[@fullstackwithsantosh]

What if my service is directly on host and not in a container? How do I connect it to that particular docker network?

[@BMW-GS]

Appreciate this is an older video now, but your videos are absolutely great to learn from, so thanks very much for all you do! However this one is stopped me in my tracks... at the point of logging into nginx (4m30s) I am constantly getting Bad Gateway? Any thoughts? Thanks again

[@skarbel]

Did you get to the bottom of this? I have the same issue..

[@T1k33y]

@@skarbel One reddit command suggested editing the docker-compose file: Change "./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql" to "./mysql:/var/lib/mysql". This did the trick for me

[@Taylor-ys2vh]

I'm not sure if you figured out your issue, I had this also. In typical fashion, the endless rabbit holes eventually led me to a reddit article instructing to specify the version 2.9.22 for nginx instead of using the "latest" tag. So the top four lines of your docker-compose.yml should look like this: version: '3' services: app: image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:2.9.22' ports: Which, leads me to my next area and what I was searching an answer to and could not find. Regarding mariadb, you can leave that image line tagged with 'latest' db: image: 'jc21/mariadb-aria:latest' I was having permission issues. And some other access issues. Which were odd, as just before all this, I added my user to the docker group to avoid having folders built that are only root accessible, after created. I always have trouble with the shortcut ./ or ~/ in my volumes and thought something is amiss, as its locked exclusively to root and not my actual user account. Instead, for all my volumes, until I get better, I put the entire directory /home/username/docker/applicationname as an example.

[@pearcea21]

@@T1k33y thank you this helped me

[@nikolakostic3576]

Anyone managed to solve this issue?

[@mf1315]

Great video! Def need to slow down though! .75x speed is perfect

[@christianlempa]

Thanks bro

[@Mark-cf2er]

In your example at the end, wasn't the scheme set as HTTP?

[@jartran]

Thank you so much! I got this working perfectly after having a bit of trouble with Traefik and HAProxy. I do have one question, how do I use this with my host network? For instance, I would like to use this for a secure connection to access my pfsense router using the FQDN. I already tried changing the network for NPM from the default network to host without luck. What am I missing?

[@alifnaiech6972]

Man, thank you so much. You have saved me!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! Glad to hear that :)

[@giovannisorrenti9782]

you saved my life! Thank you!!!

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome!

[@zyghom]

blocking the "allow" to internal IP or network does not work if nginx is in the container - devs are aware of that but apparently there is no way to limit the address to be accessible from local network only

[@sakodv7137]

i keep getting a bad gateway error, checking the logs shows access denied for the user

[@dangaines405]

Great info! Liked and subscribed!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! :)

[@su1ka]

And what IP address you see in logs when you try to surf nextcloud instance? Your proxy gateway?

[@kevinvalani5079]

You are a gem.

[@christianlempa]

Thx :D

[@yomajo]

I struggled with nginx configuration for subdomain. My mentor said in long term, migrate to Nginx Proxy Manager. Opened this video, watched it till the end. Still have no idea WHY? What purpose it serves?

[@Chrither]

Hi Christan, I really like your channel and the awesome work you do. I came across a weird error message, when entering the NGINX reverse proxy manager for the first time; it simply won't let me login with the initial default credentials reporting "bad gateway". I check some github posts reporting the same issue, but none of their solutions helped. The only thing i changed from your template is to make the NGINX-RPM use the host network, which seems to run fine since I can call it using the host IP on port 81. Did you ever experience this? Thanks for the awesome work! Keep it up!! Cheers!

[@christianlempa]

Thanks mate! This error is most likely due to database connectivity issues. Check your config and connection between npm and the db.

[@bluesmilez4850]

@@christianlempa how is this fixed? im still learning and am unsure how you mean to fix it

[@Novalis2009]

@@christianlempa I know this is old but I just follwed it today and got the same error. No clue how to solve this. But nobody explains how this is all connected: docker, npm, nginx, mysql. That's why I get so frustrated with Linux. And why I never use docker. Trying to do something and then spend hours to figure out all the obstacles. You obviously tried to fix the issue in your docker compose by changing the db location to ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql But that was not the main issue as we can now see.

[@impact0r]

Can you do a video on how to allow applications inside docker and behind reverse proxy the see client's originating IP? This is a very useful feature (geoip, stats, logs, area access control), but there is virtually no how-tos on it anywhere in the Internet.

[@christianlempa]

Great idea, but I don't think it's worth a full video. But here is what you need to do :) Add: proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; And: proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; In your NPM advanced Configuration Section of your proxy host. Should do the work! Let me know if it helps

[@materangics6984]

How to add MQTT reverse proxy to the NGINX Proxy Manager?

[@mason8714]

more brilliant content! thank you!

[@christianlempa]

thanks! :)

[@saintvittsdance]

Thank you, usefull content!

[@jeytis72]

Good. Waiting for wildcard certificates in Nginx. Thanks

[@christianlempa]

Thanks man :)

[@inaciosung]

Hello from Brazil! Great Content Christian. Thanks for sharing! I wonder if it is mandatory to do it in the "/opt/ directory". Does it make a difference? Cheers!

[@christianlempa]

Hey thank you man :) No it's not really important, I usually just place my containers in this folder to easily find them and follow the linux filesystem BPs, but it doesn't really make a difference technically.

[@inaciosung]

@@christianlempa Capito! Tks again!

[@WokCorner]

Hello sir, thanks for this! May I ask? I have multiple virtual servers on LAN, each of them having a java app available at 33333 port. Can I use this docker nginx proxy manager to make all of them available on internet? Or do I have to redeploy each of them to run them in docker too? Thanks!

[@mohamedharmouche9490]

Very helpful. But SSL certs need to be renewed manually!

[@Dudleydogg]

problem is the nas wont let you use 80/443 need a mac vlan but my pihole already taking that one up.

[@sandeeptembare]

Thank you so much, great content. ✌

[@christianlempa]

Thanks ❤😍

[@Yalchin403]

Useful unless you want to server static files :D

[@siavashmohammady9095]

thank you a lot you saved me lot of time

[@christianlempa]

Glad it was helpful ;)

[@littlenewton6]

I need help of Advanced settings of proxy entry!

[@theshamanway1]

having configured an ubuntu server just to run as a nginx proxy server this setup is so simple and thanks for all the great videos you put out. I have one problem how to secure nginx proxy manager with its own ssl. I have seen else where that you set up a host pointed at the portainer network ip that nmp runs on but that does not work. I should explain that i use cloudflare to point to my public ip on the local router and that port forwards to the ip where i run ubuntu with docker, portainer and npm. Any suggestions of where to look etc would be great, thanks.

[@drbyte2009]

Thanks for the great video !

[@christianlempa]

Glad you liked it!

[@prn-ice]

Soooo helpful.

[@AKASH-sw9bs]

Can you make a tutorial or share some resources that how to configure nginx docker-compose node.js app --scale?

[@netfenceutbildning]

Is this tutorial assuming nginx proxyserver to be installed first?

[@christianlempa]

No it's the installation tutorial.

[@anupraj762]

Nice explanation

[@christianlempa]

Thanks!

GG...perfect alternative to kemp

[@odinalfather6494]

You can also put your twitch in the description :)

[@christianlempa]

I removed it because I don't stream anymore, sry 😞

[@henriksindrup2418]

Hi Christian. Thanks for your super great tutorials I have two issues with NGINX PM .. I do not expect "user support" but if you have a quick response I would be very grateful. NXINX PM will not start automatically after boot of server .. I have added restart: always in the yaml file. The weird thing is that after I added restart: always, it's enough to run docker-compose ps .. The first time it writes "starting" .. The second time "started" ??? What do I overlook :) The second and worst thing .. My Wordpress sites lose all formatting when I run through NGINX .. All content is "readable" but no styling at all .. Any ideas? Hope you have the energy to answer .. And finally. Continue with your great work .. Best Henrik

[@khizershareef5076]

for some reason I can't login to the web app with default user and password changeme with a bad gateway error

[@GENhodgy1971]

Nice one mate!

[@sirandrex]

I already have it running on my setup. I used to have a manual installation of nginx + certbot, so this is more simple and quick . If I question you about this or traefik, what did you prefer?

[@christianlempa]

I would say that nginx proxy manager is perfect for reverseproxies especially in smaller environments where you have a single docker node running. If you need load balancing features I would prefer traefik.

[@jasonmehlhoff8877]

Having some trouble here. When I click try going to my fqdn it makes it to my opnsense login page. It also doesn't show it is secured. I have nginx setup and a proxy host pointing to my "research nextcloud server". I did open http and https on my firewall. Do I have to open a lan port to get to my nextcloud? I'm so close! haha. Great videos though, you are so awesome for all us newbies! cheers

[@eppttyy]

Which port do I forward on my network

[@tonyg2973]

you are awesome! thanks!

[@christianlempa]

Glad it helped!

[@RussianAgent66]

Amazing tutorial, only question I have is that when I restart my server nginx is wiped and I have to restart, how can it maintain my data on a restart without me having to set everything up again?

[@Anthony-tj7jx]

Hey there, thanks for the great tutorials! This one piece needs updated - in your docker-compose.yaml you've got image: 'jc21/mariadb-aria:10.4' but that needs to be updated to 'jc21/mariadb-aria:latest'

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! I'll update that shortly

[@szymon7300]

You made my day :)

[@christianlempa]

Thx :D

[@VithuRatnasingam]

Hi Christian! I have been watching your videos and this is amazzing what you are doing. I actually set this up in my home lab. everything is working fine except one thing. I am able to access my application from a device connected to different network(different ISP connection) but if i connect to the same network (ISP connection) and try to access, its loading forever. Appreciate your help

[@AceBoy2099]

Is there a way to use this for a service on a different machine/network? In my case, I'd probably have this setup on my unraid box, but want to use it for homeassistant which is on a proxmox machine; the unraid is currently on my home vlan and the home assistant vm is on my iot vlan.

[@hassanebendaoud4446]

amazing video

[@christianlempa]

Thanks!

[@afreisi]

How to configure Nginx Proxy Manager to forward ssh?

[@sebasdt2103]

hey great video! shouldn't it be possible to replace the proxy thiny with a selfhosted VPN? like wireguard. or Is there a advantage of using the proxy thingy

[@christianlempa]

Hmm a VPN is something different than a reverse proxy. VPN is just for internal usage and rev proxy to expose a service publicly

[@auliarahman755]

Hello, i strugle while using custom "location feature" for using 1 domain with custom path, but while its set its running with error 404 assets because its not behind the new path, can you create a guide for this ? thanks

[@yurihonorato161]

please if you discovered, show me I need this

[@serhatgulasti]

I can reach login page inside of host but I cannot able to see login or :80 page on another computer. Is there any solution?

[@maeglingondolinsbane3446]

Thanks great video I've been looking for a tutorial like this for a long time.

[@fahadnaif2170]

what if you have multiple public IPs and different dockers. How you will point them into Ngnix proxy manager? Thanks

[@michaelcooper5490]

Hello Christian, Good Video. I am going to assume @ the 12:00 minute mark or close to that you mention custom locations and paths, That this would be a file path is this correct? Thank you sir.

[@Daniel-qo9uv]

What to do when after typing: docker-compose up -d I get: ERROR: Couldn't connect to Docker daemon - you might need to run `docker-machine start default`. Thanks

[@nestaman4445]

I did everything but its point me to my router not my application

[@pehden]

Yea, but how can you link two of these together? That would be my issue, seems like no one has gone this far.

[@giorgoskormpakis]

Thanks for this great tutorial! Is there a way to test the deployment on localhost? I'm trying to run it locally, so that to validate how it works. Thanks again!

[@christianlempa]

Thanks for watching! :) Yes, you can test it locally, you might have to add an FQDN manually in the /etc/hosts file of your PC to test domains.

[@masonreeves3426]

when i try to login with default credentials, i receive a bad gateway error message. followed step-by-step until that point. any tips?

[@misogear]

Hi how to proxy my web apps outside docker container ?

[@Drjones117]

How do I do this with the new portainer? Everything is named differently, and its asking for a kubernetes file instead of a docker compose.