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Install Nginx Proxy Manager

Posted on September 21, 2020 (January 24, 2021) by ServerOk

Nginx Proxy Manager is Docker based GUI for managing Nginx reverse proxy. It support LetsEncrypt free SSL. https://nginxproxymanager.com Nginx Proxy Manager Certificate Key is not valid To install, create a folder

mkdir nginx-proxy-manager
cd nginx-proxy-manager

1 2	mkdir nginx-proxy-manager cd nginx-proxy-manager

Creaye docker-compose.yaml file

vi docker-compose.yaml

1	vi docker-compose.yaml

add following content

version: "3"
services:
  app:
    image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'
    restart: always
    ports:
      # Public HTTP Port:
      - '80:80'
      # Public HTTPS Port:
      - '443:443'
      # Admin Web Port:
      - '81:81'
    environment:
      # These are the settings to access your db
      DB_MYSQL_HOST: "db"
      DB_MYSQL_PORT: 3306
      DB_MYSQL_USER: "npm"
      DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD: "npm"
      DB_MYSQL_NAME: "npm"
      # If you would rather use Sqlite uncomment this
      # and remove all DB_MYSQL_* lines above
      # DB_SQLITE_FILE: "/data/database.sqlite"
      # 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:10.4
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'npm'
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'npm'
      MYSQL_USER: 'npm'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'npm'
    volumes:
      - ./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql

version: "3"

services:

app:

image: 'jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest'

restart: always

ports:

# Public HTTP Port:

- '80:80'

# Public HTTPS Port:

- '443:443'

# Admin Web Port:

- '81:81'

environment:

# These are the settings to access your db

DB_MYSQL_HOST: "db"

DB_MYSQL_PORT: 3306

DB_MYSQL_USER: "npm"

DB_MYSQL_PASSWORD: "npm"

DB_MYSQL_NAME: "npm"

# If you would rather use Sqlite uncomment this

# and remove all DB_MYSQL_* lines above

# DB_SQLITE_FILE: "/data/database.sqlite"

# 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:10.4

restart: always

environment:

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'npm'

MYSQL_DATABASE: 'npm'

MYSQL_USER: 'npm'

MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'npm'

volumes:

- ./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql

If you don’t have docker and docker-compose installed, install it with

apt install docker.io docker-compose

1	apt install docker.io docker-compose

To start Nginx […]

LetsEncrypt SSL On Nginx Password Protected site

Posted on August 11, 2020 (December 17, 2020) by ServerOk

When you develop a web site, you will need it password protected so others won’t see or you don’t want google to index the web pages while you are working on it. To password protect a web site in nginx, see Nginx Password Protect a website If you password protect a web site and try […]

Enable CORS in Nginx

Posted on August 1, 2020 (August 1, 2020) by ServerOk

To enable CORS in nginx, add following inside web sites sevrer config.

add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';

add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';

add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';

add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';

add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-Mx-ReqToken,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';

Restart nginx

systemctl restart nginx

1	systemctl restart nginx

See CORS […]

List installed Modules in Nginx

Posted on July 30, 2020 (September 25, 2020) by ServerOk

To list modules compiled with nginx, you can run nginx -V

nginx -V

nginx -V

This print nginx version along with configuration used to compile nginx. If you want just the list of modules, you can use following command

nginx -V 2>&1 | tr -- - '\n' | grep  _module

1	nginx -V 2>&1 \| tr -- - '\n' \| grep _module

Example See Nginx […]

Nginx remove html from url

Posted on July 23, 2020 (January 25, 2021) by ServerOk

If you have a static website build using plain html files, your url will look like https://yourdomain/page.html. This .html extension is useful for the files when it is on your local computer, it help computer to associate the file with specific application, say your HTML editor. But on a web server this .html extension serve […]

Nginx show full url in access log

Posted on July 15, 2020 by ServerOk

To show full url in nginx access log, add following

log_format main '$http_x_forwarded_for - $remote_user [$time_local] '
                '"$request_method $scheme://$host$request_uri $server_protocol" '
                '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                '"$http_user_agent" $request_time';

log_format main '$http_x_forwarded_for - $remote_user [$time_local] '

'"$request_method $scheme://$host$request_uri $server_protocol" '

'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '

'"$http_user_agent" $request_time';

See Nginx […]

Nginx HTTP 414 request-URI too large

Posted on February 6, 2020 by ServerOk

On a Nginx server, when accessing a long url, i get error

HTTP 414 Request-URI Too Large

1	HTTP 414 Request-URI Too Large

To fix the error, edit

vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

1	vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

inside “http” section, find

large_client_header_buffers

1	large_client_header_buffers

Replace the line with

large_client_header_buffers 4 32k;

1	large_client_header_buffers 4 32k;

If your URL is very large, you may need to increase the 32k to higher or reduce the url length. Large url like this mostly happend […]

Show Real IP Nginx Behind Reverse Proxy

Posted on November 22, 2019 (November 22, 2019) by ServerOk

When your Nginx web server is running behind a reverse proxy, you will see IP of the reverse proxy server as visitor IP in web servers access log. To fix this, edit nginx.conf file

vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

1	vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Find

http {

http {

Inside http section, add

set_real_ip_from IP_ADDRESS_OF_PROXY_SERVER_HERE;
real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;

1 2	set_real_ip_from IP_ADDRESS_OF_PROXY_SERVER_HERE; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;

Example

set_real_ip_from 192.168.122.1;
real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;

1 2	set_real_ip_from 192.168.122.1; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;

Restart Nginx

nginx -s reload

1	nginx -s reload

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Nginx Location Directive

Posted on September 29, 2019 by ServerOk

Nginx Location Directive is used to route request to correct files. Match Exact match is used to match an exact URL.

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    root /var/www/html;
    index index.html;
    server_name _;

    location /ok/ {
        root /home/;
    }
}

server {

listen 80 default_server;

root /var/www/html;

index index.html;

server_name _;

location /ok/ {

root /home/;

}

When location is used with no modifiers, then beginning of the URL is matched. In this case, any url http://domain/ok/FILE_NAME will be served from /home/ok/FILE_NAME Exact Match (=) Exact match is used to […]

Nginx Password Protect a website

Posted on August 3, 2019 (December 17, 2020) by ServerOk

To password protect a web site, you need to install htpasswd utility. On Ubuntu/Debian, you can install it with command

apt install apache2-utils -y

1	apt install apache2-utils -y

Now create a password file with command

htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd  USER_NAME_HERE

1	htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd USER_NAME_HERE

It will ask for password. Edit configuration file for your web site and add following in the server entry for the web site.

auth_basic "Members Only";
auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;

1 2	auth_basic "Members Only"; auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;

Restart Nginx. […]