Hello, I have a question regarding the usage of a reverse-proxy which is part of a docker network.
I currently use Nginx Proxy Manager as a reverse-proxy for all my services hosted in docker. This works great since I can simply forward using each containers name. I have some services however (e.g. homeassistant) which are hosted separately in a VM or using docker on another device.
Is it possible to use the same reverse-proxy for those services as well? I haven’t found a way to forward to hosts outside of the proxies docker network (except for using the host network setting which I would like to avoid)
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If the other services are exposed on local ports, you can have NPM forward to those.
By exposed you basically mean that I can reach them using my browser? I can reach my homeassistant web ui on port 8123 but when I try to forward to that port with the servers IP I get a 400 Bad Request error. I’m not sure if this is caused by nginx being unable to forward or by homeassistant not accepting the connection somehow
If you have any kind of firewall on your network, you might make sure it’s not blocking that port with a rule. Here’s a couple screenshots from my setup in case that helps.
The config in NPM
The config in HA’s configuration.yaml
Try adding just the NPM IP and HA IP first, then add the docker internal network as well if you still have issues.
Thanks for the configuration example. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ve replied to someone above with screenshots of what my configuration now looks like. The
base_url
option you use there wasn’t available to me because it apparently has been deprecated and replaced withinternal_url
andexternal_url
.For homeassistant I had to add this in configuration.yaml
Where 172.21.0.2 is my NPM docker IP
Edit: its NPM IP and not HA like I wrote first time
This. Also, make sure the proxy is proxying websocket traffic as well. I do it with pure nginx like this:
Thanks. I tried it like this and still get a 400 Bad Request error.
Someone below mentioned adding some more IPs to the trusted_proxies list so I tried that as well without result. The IP I used for the reverse-proxy is the IP listed in portainer under the network for the proxy container. Just to reiterate, the container is running on a different device than homeassistant (technically same device but different VM but that shouldn’t make a difference).
My NPM window looks the same as yours. Im not sure mate, I would try disabling firewall just to see is that the problem. Im not expert in that area and nothing else comes to my mind sorry. Im also running everything under one host
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