r1co/extended-nginx-proxy repository overview

Extends jwilder's nginx-proxy with some additional features.

For basic configuration you should look at jwilder/nginx-proxy⁠

⁠Usage of extended-nginx-proxy

⁠Configuration for extended-nginx-proxy

⁠Collect logs

⁠COLLECT_LOGS | false (default)

When COLLECT_LOGS is set to true, access logs for each container will collected in /var/log/nginx-vhosts/.

⁠Change private env key

⁠VIRTUAL_PRIVATE_ENV_KEY | VIRTUAL_PRIVATE (default)

To change the env key witch is used for private containers set VIRTUAL_PRIVATE_ENV_KEY to a different value.

⁠Example

nginx-proxy:
  build: extended-nginx-proxy
  container_name: nginx-proxy
  ports:
    - "127.0.0.1:80:80"
  volumes:
    - /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro
    - ./volumes/conf.d/:/etc/nginx/conf.d/
    - ./volumes/vhost.d/:/etc/nginx/vhost.d
    - ./volumes/logs:/var/log/nginx-vhosts
    - ./volumes/htpasswd:/etc/nginx/htpasswd
  environment:
    - COLLECT_LOGS=true
    - VIRTUAL_PRIVATE_ENV_KEY=VIRTUAL_PRIVATE

⁠Configuration for client containters

⁠Max Body Size

⁠VIRTUAL_BIGBODY | false (default)

To increase the client_max_body_size you could set VIRTUAL_BIGBODY to true. This will will set client_max_body_size to 1G.

⁠VIRTUAL_BIGBODY_SIZE | 1G (default)

To set the increased client_max_body_size to a diffrent value than 1G you could use VIRTUAL_BIGBODY_SIZE.

⁠Private

⁠VIRTUAL | false (default)

To restrict the access to a container to certain ip's, set VIRTUAL_PRIVATE to true.

If VIRTUAL_PRIVATE is set to true /etc/nginx/vhost.d/default_private and /etc/nginx/vhost.d/<hostname>_private will be included if the exist.

⁠Example

whoami:
    image: jwilder/whoami
    container_name: whoami
    environment:
      - VIRTUAL_BIGBODY=true
      - VIRTUAL_BIGBODY_SIZE=10G
      - VIRTUAL_PRIVATE=true