NGINX reverse proxy with letsencrypt

It does the following..

• Install 'bot blocker' https://github.com/mariusv/nginx-badbot-blocker
• Generate and configure SSL certificate https://letsencrypt.org
• Setup cron job to auto update certificates

Example

mkdir -p $HOME/nginx-test/config
mkdir -p $HOME/nginx-test/nginx-config
mkdir -p $HOME/nginx-test/certificate
echo '
[
   {
      "url": "example.com",
      "proxy": "https://192.168.0.10:8080",
      "email": "mail@example.com",
      "https": false,
      "extra_config": "\\n#Some extra config\\n"
   }
]' > $HOME/nginx-test/config/nginx.json
docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v $HOME/nginx-test/config:/app/config -v $HOME/nginx-test/nginx-config:/etc/nginx/generated.conf.d -v $HOME/nginx-test/certificate:/etc/letsencrypt sandeshshrestha/nginx-letsencrypt

/app/config/nginx.json

Config string that describe proxy rules

• url
  • Public url
  • DNS of this url should be forwarded to this container
• proxy
  • IP and port of container hosing the website
• email
  • Email used while calling certbot to create SSL certificate
• https
  • If true it will auto create SSL certificate
  • If false it will only setup proxy for http://example.com
• extra_config
  • Some text that will be added on nginx conf.
  • It must be valid nginx confix syntax