# Docker hinter einem Proxy und Elkarte-Migration **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Created:** [25. April 2018 um 18:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-behind-a-proxy-and-elkarte-conversion/86166 "2018-04-25T18:47:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![tetricky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@tetricky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tetricky)\ **Post date:** [25. April 2018 um 18:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-behind-a-proxy-and-elkarte-conversion/86166/1 "2018-04-25T18:47:47Z")
I have a couple of questions, which will hopefully point me in the right direction. I’m going around in circles in my head. Firstly: I have a well powered vps, that I’m running a number of web-apps, behind an nginx proxy, providing letsencrypt certificates. I am using docker compose to spin up what I need, and running containers on a docker-network so that I can re-use them between multiple domains (eg shared databases). I set environment variables for the different domains (vhosts), and expose the ports for the nginx proxy to work for these domains within the docker compose file. I don’t entirely understand the installation for discourse - how can I join the discourse docker container to this network, and expose the ports to the proxy? Secondly: For historical reasons I have an smf forum, which has become an elkarte forum. Elkarte is based on smf and I think the database schema is the same (if with some additions). Would the smf importer work with this database, or am I going to have to modify it based on the differences? I lack the skill set to do this quickly, so any advice would be appreciated. Any guidance that points me in the right direction would be much appreciated. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/docker-behind-a-proxy-and-elkarte-conversion/86166)._