Domain Redirector

Domain Redirector gives you a Digital Ocean droplet based on a custom machine image (based on Ubuntu 18) which provides you with a basic nginx webserver that is designed to allow you to manage web redirects easily.

Configuring

Copy the example config files:

cp ./config/nginx-default.conf.tpl ./config/nginx-default.conf && \
cp ./config/tf.json.tpl ./config/tf.json

Add your DO API Key to ./config/tf.json and make any required adjustments to the default values.

Add your redirect server blocks to ./config/nginx-default.conf. Each domain should live in it's own block - scroll to the bottom to see an example block.

Building

Now we have the configuration for the build, we can start the build process with:

make build

This will invoke a packer command to build the base image and store it in DO.

It will inject the nginx configuration information so it simply needs deploying after it has been built:

Deploying

make deploy

Running make deploy initialises the TF project and installs the required modules before proceeding to deploy the image to a droplet and create a floating IP address (if this is your first run).

Future Development

• add domains to DO TF so that the floating IP address can automatically be deployed to the correct zones.
• secure the Ubuntu image by removing any cruft from the base image.