If i’m not posting this in the right section, i’m sorry. I’m using Oracle Free tier as my server, and i have a Ubuntu installation with a couple of docker containers running. I’m using Caddy, also running in docker, as rproxy for all my containers. Now i need to setup Discourse as the last piece of the puzzle, but i’m not sure how to proceed. I have testet and installed Discourse with a standard docker installation on my other testserver, but that’s the whole package, and if i need to use caddy as rproxy, i need to disable some of the features i guess? If anyone could point me in the right direction, i would much appriceate it.

This might be helpful: [תמונה] Use Caddy instead of NGINX as your reverse proxy Self-Hosting [image] Here are some notes about how I got my test Discourse instance running with Caddy Server. Cool stuff about Caddy: They use Discourse smile Free SSL with Let’s Encrypt HTTP2 and QUIC out of the box Easier to configure than nginx Cons: Not as battle tested as apache, nginx and cia. How To Preparing Discourse First, you need to apply this changes to your app.yml: templates: - "templates/postgres.template.yml" - "templates/redis.template.yml" - "templates/web.t…

I think that got me on the right track. I’m not sure i’m pointing to the right path though. in my app.yml I have set my volumes here: And i can build my Discourse without problems. volumes: - volume: host: /opt/docker/docker_configs/discourse/shared/standalone guest: /shared - volume: host: /opt/docker/docker_configs/discourse/shared/standalone/log/var-log guest: /var/log And reading that forumthread, i tried a couple of things with my Caddyfile. forum.mydomain.com { reverse_proxy unix//opt/docker/docker_configs/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock import cloudflare } forum.mydomain.com { reverse_proxy /opt/docker/docker_configs/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock import cloudflare } Neither of them work, but i’m really not sure i’m doing it right though xD

How are you starting caddy? [תמונה]Use Caddy instead of NGINX as your reverse proxy -v /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/sock \ This line from the original topic needs to be adjusted for your directory for this to work. Unless the correct directory is mounted in caddy container, it can not see the socket created by discourse.

Arh, you mean that i need to mount the discourse sock to caddy? that makes sense! I tried something else last night however. When discourse is started, it is running in a docker bridge network. If i just add the docker-default network that all my other containers, including Caddy, is in, then i can simply add it to caddy like i do with all my other containers. forum.mydomain.com { reverse_proxy app:80 import cloudflare } I couldn’t figure out where the docker network is defined in all those yml files though. If i could change it from the bridge to run in docker default, all is fixed for me.

This might be helpful: [תמונה] Use Nginx Proxy Manager to manage multiple sites with Discourse Sysadmins EDIT: @pfaffman re-wrote this as a standalone topic from what @tophee had written earlier. It’s not yet tested by me, and I’ve moved around Chris’s words, so any mistakes are likely those of @pfaffman. Are there any reasons not to use NGINX Proxy Manager instead of doing this manually as described in Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse? I’m already using it. I’ve had it on my home server for a while and when I migrated my discourse instance to a new cloud server, I realized t… While it is for Nginx Proxy Manager, It describes the process of bringing containers under default bridge.

Yes! it works! I had to change a couple of things, but it is almost as the first thread you linked. In Caddyfile i had to write it like this Which is a bit different than written in the thread. forum.mydomain.com { reverse_proxy unix//sock/nginx.http.sock import cloudflare } and I’ve added the volume, which of course makes sense when i now think of it. I’m using docker-compose. caddy: container_name: Caddy build: dockerfile: ./caddy-config/Dockerfile context: . labels: com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable: "false" ports: - 80:80 - 443:443 volumes: - ./docker_configs/caddy/data:/data - ./docker_configs/caddy/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile - ./docker_configs/caddy/srv:/srv - /var/discourse/shared/standalone:/sock restart: always Thanks alot for the help!

[תמונה] Tinsmith6176: a bit different than written in the thread. That is probably due to upstream changes in Caddy itself. The image linked in the topic still works with the provided configuration afaik.

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) 8 בספטמבר,‏ 2022,‏ 12:50pm 2

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