I've been struggling with creating a reverse proxy with wild card certificates for my local home lab. I tried Wolfgang's solution using duckdns.org with Nginx but it never works. I tried TechnoTim's solution but got confused. I have a sysadmin and developer background and need help (step-by-step) using traefik in docker. Thank you!
@dirtyharrywk welcome to the forums! Traefik and Docker with LetsEncrypt can definitely make you pull your hair out when getting started. Here are a couple of posts that I have written. I am not sure if you have looked at these as of yet. Let me know where you are running into issues. Normally it is always something small that trips many up with this.
If you want to go the Traefik route:
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/02/traefik-letsencrypt-certificates-configuration/
If you want to try Nginx Proxy Manager (it is the easiest since it has a GUI):
Hopefully we can work through the issues 👍
@dirtyharrywk Also keep in mind, you will need to have a real registered domain out there that is reachable with DNS. What DNS provider are you using?
Thanks @brandon-lee. I do have a domain with Namecheap and Cloudflare as my DNS.
@dirtyharrywk Great! I think Cloudflare is one of the easiest to make work without issues. Let me know if you can follow one of the processes in the blog posts and let me know if you run into any issues along the way and if you have any questions 👍
I'm confused on the step "Redirect to HTTPS". Where does that go? The traefik.yml file already has "middlewares" for HTTP.
traefik.yml:
providers:
docker:
exposedByDefault: false
file:
filename: /etc/traefik/dynamic.yml
http:
routers:
dashboard:
rule: Host(`traefik.MY_DOMAIN.com`)
service: api@internal
middlewares:
- traefik-auth
tls:
certResolver: dns-cloudflare
middlewares:
traefik-auth:
basicAuth:
users:
- "admin:admin"
certificatesResolvers:
dns-cloudflare:
acme:
email: MY_EMAIL_ADDRESS
storage: /letsencrypt/acme.json
dnsChallenge:
provider: cloudflare
delayBeforeCheck: 0
caServer: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
traefik.yml:
providers:
docker:
exposedByDefault: false
file:
filename: /etc/traefik/dynamic.yml
http:
routers:
dashboard:
rule: Host(`traefik.MY_DOMAIN.com`)
service: api@internal
middlewares:
- traefik-auth
tls:
certResolver: dns-cloudflare
middlewares:
traefik-auth:
basicAuth:
users:
- "admin:admin"
redirect-to-https:
redirectScheme:
scheme: https
certificatesResolvers:
dns-cloudflare:
acme:
email: MY_EMAIL
storage: /letsencrypt/acme.json
dnsChallenge:
provider: cloudflare
delayBeforeCheck: 0
caServer: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
log file is displaying this:
2024/02/20 17:21:51 command traefik error: field not found, node: middlewares