Set up nginx as a proxy

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Set up nginx as a proxy #5

Closed sebbacon closed 6 years ago

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

So we can:

Access web UI remotely in general
Access graphite from openhab app
Set up custom JSON endpoints for Tasker

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

Progress:

Can't set up letsencrypt via certbot because that requires access on port 80 to the webserver in question, and my router already has its UI there. Will have to do that bit manually
In general, my router wants to be the webserver on my static IP, so everything I use will have to use non-standard ports

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

Configured certificate over DNS:

certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges dns

Set up two nginx servers on ports 443 and 444 for openhab and grafana respectively, forwarded ports 81 and 92 to these. Turned off auth within openhab and grafana and replaced with basic auth in nginx.

Had to override basic auth header when proxying to grafana:

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8314#issuecomment-320197195

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

There's a small issue that going to the root https://openhab.baconconsulting.co.uk:81/ redirects to http://openhab.baconconsulting.co.uk/start/index. I can't connect via the mobile app so I wonder if that's related.

Tracing the app, it calls:

GET /rest/bindings

sebbacon commented 6 years ago

Fixed this by having the router forward to the same ports that nginx was listening on (i.e. 81-82).