The goal was to use linuxserver.io's letsencrypt container that has both NGINX and Let's Encrypt combined together, and use it to provide a reverse proxy service to a homeassistant container on a CentOS machine.
TLDR- I didn't get this to work so I used Lawrence Systems YouTube vid on pfsense HAproxy and acme certs to accomplish the same goal, all within a GUI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOEdt-BHDY&t=1320s
Its more steps and I didn't get it right on the first go, but its easy to trouble shoot via GUI and re-reviewing Lawrence's video.
Onto the failed attempt(s) using LinuxServer.io:
Homeassistant has an NGINX pluging and Letsencrypt plugin but the documentation is very lacking (really, homeassistant documentation that is outdated and/or not written for noobs? No way!)
So after reading a homeasistant user's tutorial thread:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-set-up-guide-docker/54802
And then later in troubleshooting per the linuxserver.io team discord and the linuxserver.io instructions
https://blog.linuxserver.io/2019/04/25/letsencrypt-nginx-starter-guide/#authorizationmethod
- looks easy as cake right?
Firstly, I transfered my domain from Bluehost to Cloudflare. This was overdue, but its mainly due to Cloudflare's API(s) being supported by a great many projects, this and acme (pfsense) being some of them.
I created a cname record for the subdomain I wanted to use as well. I'm fairly decent with firewall rules, port forwarding and NAT settings on pfsense as well, thanks to Lawrence Systems on youtube and having already done a number of self hosting projects such as a wordpress server built on a LAMP stack facing the internet.
What followed was what feels like countless docker compose builds / nukes playing with config files, going 100% per linuxserver,io instructions, going 100% per homeassistant forum instruction, and mixtures of the two.
TLDR- I didn't get this to work so I used Lawrence Systems YouTube vid on pfsense HAproxy and acme certs to accomplish the same goal, all within a GUI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOEdt-BHDY&t=1320s
Its more steps and I didn't get it right on the first go, but its easy to trouble shoot via GUI and re-reviewing Lawrence's video.
Onto the failed attempt(s) using LinuxServer.io:
Homeassistant has an NGINX pluging and Letsencrypt plugin but the documentation is very lacking (really, homeassistant documentation that is outdated and/or not written for noobs? No way!)
So after reading a homeasistant user's tutorial thread:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-set-up-guide-docker/54802
And then later in troubleshooting per the linuxserver.io team discord and the linuxserver.io instructions
https://blog.linuxserver.io/2019/04/25/letsencrypt-nginx-starter-guide/#authorizationmethod
- looks easy as cake right?
Firstly, I transfered my domain from Bluehost to Cloudflare. This was overdue, but its mainly due to Cloudflare's API(s) being supported by a great many projects, this and acme (pfsense) being some of them.
I created a cname record for the subdomain I wanted to use as well. I'm fairly decent with firewall rules, port forwarding and NAT settings on pfsense as well, thanks to Lawrence Systems on youtube and having already done a number of self hosting projects such as a wordpress server built on a LAMP stack facing the internet.
What followed was what feels like countless docker compose builds / nukes playing with config files, going 100% per linuxserver,io instructions, going 100% per homeassistant forum instruction, and mixtures of the two.
The linuxserver.io team was sure their default setup using the renamed homeassistant proxy conf would work (contrary to the homeassistant forum... and most other product specific forums running their container for things like Plex, Nextcloud on things like UnRaid etc).
But this was a great exercise in learning Docker, and a reminder there are still plenty of linux communities where if you are not at a dev's / grey beard's level, you are not welcome- but that is human nature and not going away anytime soon.
Bit thanks to Lawrence System's channel and discord not being one of these places, but fostering learning and community acceptance/training (go figure they are associated with the "Learn Linux" channel which is also amazing). Together with places like Level1techs, we noobs aspiring to RTFM but need help along the way have great people and resources.
Bit thanks to Lawrence System's channel and discord not being one of these places, but fostering learning and community acceptance/training (go figure they are associated with the "Learn Linux" channel which is also amazing). Together with places like Level1techs, we noobs aspiring to RTFM but need help along the way have great people and resources.
Useful docker links:
Docker Compose install, basic use:
Correcting my machines timezone
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-or-change-timezone-on-ubuntu-18-04/
Level1techs:
https://level1techs.com/
click on their forums, and check out their merch at their store
Level1techs:
https://level1techs.com/
click on their forums, and check out their merch at their store
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