beck24 / docker-reverse-proxy

Docker Reverse Proxy

An nginx based reverse proxy container for routing http requests to various unrelated docker services

Build

Copy the docker-override template and set any env specific values

cp docker-compose.override.yml.example docker-compose.override.yml

Create any virtual hosts by copying the template and editing it

cp templates/default.conf.template.example mysite.conf.template

Once docker containers are up and running and configured to connect on the network "nginx-router" bring up this router

docker compose up -d

Local ssl cert

https://dockerwebdev.com/tutorials/docker-php-development/

Install https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

Create the local Certificate Authority

mkcert -install

Create certs for a domain

cd certs/
mkcert "*.localhost" localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1

To move the root cert to another machine (or windows/linux on the same machine) simply copy the CAroot.pem to the location on the new maching and run mkcert -install again. The location of the CAroot.pem can be found with mkcert -CAROOT