Ready-to-use Nginx-Certbot-Docker Compose Setup

What is this?

This project is all about simplifying the process of securing your web traffic with SSL encryption. It's designed to seamlessly integrate Nginx as a reverse proxy with Certbot for automated SSL certificate management, all wrapped up with Docker Compose.

Found this image later: HTTPS-PORTAL

Use Multiple Domains

Checkout Traefik if you want to run and connect multiple containers, domains, etc.

Requirements

• Docker Compose (comes built in with latest docker version)
• Git (optional)

Setup

1. Clone/Download this repository and move the ssl_setup folder in your root project folder (next to your Dockerfile).
2. Make the generator executable with chmod +x ssl_setup/generate.sh.
3. Run ./ssl_setup/generate.sh and fill the options.
4. Do not set a too low refresh rate to avoid rate-limits.
5. The script generated a docker-compose.yml and nginx.conf file.
6. Adjust the files further if you want (Warning: do not run /generate again, it will override).

DNS Settings

• Set A Record (and AAA Record) to point to your servers IPv4 (and IPv6) address in your domains DNS settings.
• If you use a proxy like Cloudflare make sure that requests like http://{{YOUR_DOMAIN}}/.well-known/acme-challenge/* are getting forwarded (do not force HTTPS).

Start / Stop

1. run docker compose up --build -d to start or update the server (docker-compose for older versions)
2. run docker compose down to stop the server