It lets you change reverse proxy or run a website with TLS completely independently of the certbot. The certbot deals with obtaining certs and leaves them in a dir, and the proxies or webservers just take them from that dir. If the proxy container breaks the certbot still does its thing etc.
It also makes it easier to do stuff like run different proxies in paralel for different things, chain proxies (for instance if you need to use a VPS because you can’t forward ports) and so on.
But it’s all for advanced setups, for basic stuff I’d still go with NPM.
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I’m currently in the process of separating the certificate renewal service from the reverse proxy completely.
But if you’re just starting out Nginx Proxy Manager makes it so easy.
Out of curiosity, what’s the benefit of splitting those?
It lets you change reverse proxy or run a website with TLS completely independently of the certbot. The certbot deals with obtaining certs and leaves them in a dir, and the proxies or webservers just take them from that dir. If the proxy container breaks the certbot still does its thing etc.
It also makes it easier to do stuff like run different proxies in paralel for different things, chain proxies (for instance if you need to use a VPS because you can’t forward ports) and so on.
But it’s all for advanced setups, for basic stuff I’d still go with NPM.
Cool makes sense, thanks for the reply! And yeah, I don’t think I’m quite there yet.