Dear Discourse community. I have a question that I hope you can help me with. I would like to install Discourse on a dedicated Ubuntu virtual machine (Oracle VirtualBox). example: 192.168.6.15. I already have Apache2 and Nginx servers running on the same local network. Could I just use a proxy like: (apache sample) ServerName forum.example.org RewriteEngine On SSLEngine On SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/forum.example.org/fullchain.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/forum.example.org/privkey.pem Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass / http://192.168.6.15:4578/ ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.6.15:4578/ Would that work? Is it good practice? I guess let’s encrypt on a proxy server that will handle SSL?

Thank you all for your reply. I followed the steps in this guide and installed it.

[image] kdiamond: Would that work? Yes [image] kdiamond: Is it good practice? Most of the time, no. We already ship nginx inside the container, and we keep it configured and up to date with support for things brotli, http/2, non-buffering proxy, correct handling of client IPs, etc. If you add a new proxy in the middle, then you are responsible for not breaking each of of those features.

[image] kdiamond: I would like to install Discourse on a dedicated Ubuntu virtual machine (Oracle VirtualBox). example: 192.168.6.15. Is this a production install for use, or a development install? Will it be a local VM? Will you be able to give it a name in DNS?

Apache/Nginx as proxy server?

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Stephen (Stephen) July 31, 2023, 7:49pm 3

Is this a production install for use, or a development install?
Will it be a local VM?
Will you be able to give it a name in DNS?

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