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This Repository is a simple implementation of a reverse proxy and https configuration of self signed certificates as well as instructions to handle the preflight problem of react and 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin'.

Kudos for ChristianLempa at https://github.com/ChristianLempa/cheat-sheets/blob/c199f41e121e71a96e45a3a4bb2921dfedb35348/misc/ssl-certs.md for providing an easy to use repo for creating self signed certs.

When To Use

• Home setup and u don't want to buy a domain but u want https traffic
• Perform A stack of security on the nginx instead of the website
• Configure react to connect to ur backend through nginx

Dependencies

• OpenSSL using https://github.com/ChristianLempa/cheat-sheets/blob/c199f41e121e71a96e45a3a4bb2921dfedb35348/misc/ssl-certs.md
• Docker
• Docker-Compose
• Portainer(better to have)

Usage

> create Self Signed certs using link above and put in cert folder

docker-compose up -d inside the shell

Reverse Proxy Only

Watch out for

• Always set it up as the last step after finishing development
• If u Have 2 services that requires port 80, remember to change the port number of the docker compose inside the docker daemon and in the outside host port : 81:81