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Welcome to the korerorero-reverse-proxy wiki!

There's a staging server currently running on lightsail. Here are the commands to get it up and running (with SSL cert).

Many thanks to this post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-a-pocket-platform-as-a-service-with-amazon-lightsail/

# start the reverse proxy container
sudo docker run --detach \
    --name nginx-proxy \
    --publish 80:80 \
    --publish 443:443 \
    --volume /etc/nginx/certs \
    --volume /etc/nginx/vhost.d \
    --volume /usr/share/nginx/html \
    --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro \
    jwilder/nginx-proxy

# start the letsencrypt companion
sudo docker run --detach \
    --name nginx-proxy-letsencrypt \
    --volumes-from nginx-proxy \
    --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
    --env "DEFAULT_EMAIL=YOUREMAILHERE" \
    jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion

# start a demo web server under a subdomain
sudo docker run --detach \
    --name nginx \
    --env "VIRTUAL_HOST=test.EXAMPLE.COM" \
    --env "LETSENCRYPT_HOST=test.EXAMPLE.COM" \
    nginx

Pay special attention to setting a valid email for the DEFAULT_EMAIL environment variable on the proxy companion; otherwise, you’ll need to specify the email whenever you start a new container. If everything went well, you should be able to navigate to https://test.EXAMPLE.COM and see the nginx default content with a valid SSL certificate that has been auto-generated by Let’s Encrypt.