Discourse with jwilder/nginx-proxy howtos?

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I use jwilder/nginx-proxy with discourse just fine.

What I did was to add the following stuff to my app.yml file:

VIRTUAL_HOST: domain.com
VIRTUAL_PORT: 80
LETSENCRYPT_HOST: domain.com
LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: some@email.com

My ports are like this, but I don’t remember anymore why… I think it avoid discourse complaining about host 80 port is being used :

expose:
  - "127.0.0.1:3040:80"`

Make sure your container is connected to the nginx network with:

docker_args:
  - "--network=name-of-your-network"

To fix discourse not getting the real IP from the host nginx, add this to your app.yml:

run:
  - replace:
      filename: /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf
      from: "types {"
      to: |
        set_real_ip_from 172.18.0.0/24;
        real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For;
        real_ip_recursive on;
        types {

Make sure the network there matches the subnet of your nginx docker network. You can check with docker inspect nginx-proxy and the ip in the command above will always be your gateway but replace last digit for 0.

So for me my nginx-proxy gateway is 172.18.0.1 so that’s why I have it as 172.18.0.0

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