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Greenlight UI behind Nginx Reverse Proxy

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, docker-compose, nginx
Domain
infrastructure, networking

Research direction

Start by reading the docker-compose HAProxy service and the mentioned mod/haproxy/haproxy.cfg and protocolmap files, then review how the external Nginx proxy forwards traffic to port 8888. Reproduce the browser redirect loop with the shown configuration; done means documenting a working proxy and TLS port configuration or confirming the setup limitation.

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Description

Hello,

I am setting up BBB on my own VPS with my domain.

Currently I am trying to get SSL encryption of Greenlight web UI via acquired by Certbot SSL certificate.

As I understand, the question is to setup haproxy, bundled in your docker compose, properly.

Question list

  1. if on phase of config generation, disabled HTTPS also disable HTTP traffic?
  2. is it possible to make it acquire SSL certificate via your setup script, is it possible to manually change docker compose config and leave only 80 port open?
  3. TLS certificate (lets encrypt) is necessary not only for HTTPS?

General problem is proxying all my HTTP 1.1 traffic behind nginx proxy server that upgrades to http 2 protocol with encryption.

I am currently got certificate by installation script, and change docker compose haproxy config to

haproxy:                                                                      
    build: mod/haproxy                                                          
    image: alangecker/bbb-haproxy:2.8.10                                        
    volumes:                                                                    
      - ./mod/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg                      
      - ./mod/haproxy/protocolmap:/etc/haproxy/protocolmap                      
    environment:                                                                
      - IGNORE_TLS_CERT_ERRORS=true                                             
    ports:                                                                      
      - 8888:80

but I got an error in web browser


The page isn’t redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
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