This is a slow learning process for me and some of you already helped me a lot to figure out reverse proxies in general. However, I’m not there yet … so:
How can I set up Lemmy (and Mastodon down the line) behind my existing reverse proxy? I’m trying to install from docker and the docker compose files come with templates for reverse proxy configuration, but these are (probably) only valid, if I’m installing on a dedicated server with nothing else running there.
I tried commenting out the stuff for the proxy configuration, but I can’t seem to get it to work. The Lemmy install ends up with 5 docker containers (lemmy, lemmy-ui, …) and I’m not sure which of them need to be adressed by my proxxy setup. Just getting the lemmy-ui container addressed by nginx didn’t work out.
I’m probably way out of my league with what I’m trying here, but if any of you have some useful tips I’d be really grateful.
Think of the NGINX proxy in Lemmy’s
docker-compose.ymlfile as the entry point to Lemmy from outside the Docker network. For instance, I don’t have any ports mapped for the individual services except for the NGINX service. The NGINX proxy in this docker-compose file will access the other services through the internal docker network, so it isn’t a problem if you set up yournginx.conffile with the service’s names. With that done, you could map any port you want for the NGINX service from the host, then point your internet-facing reverse proxy to that.I also plan on setting up a Mastodon server, but I haven’t gotten to it yet. So I don’t have anything specific to add other than it will work similarly by using docker’s port mapping or service names depending on whether each service needs to be internet-facing or only communicate internally.