TLS/SSL Certs for Docker-based Lemmy deployment - eviltoast

I was hoping to get some help from you all, since I assume there are a good number of people here selfhosting their own instance of Lemmy. There doesn’t appear to be a search bar for per community searching, so I thought I’d post my question in case anyone else has a similar one. I’ve created my own Lemmy instance running in Docker based on the dev’s provided documentation. Used their example docker-compose.yml file and others, and just customized the needed options. I’ve got everything working except one important part, TLS/SSL certs. I’m not familiar with nginx at all, but it seems like I simply need to map another volume from local:container for the cert, however when I’ve mapped certbot/conf/:/etc/nginx/ssl/ and restart all the containers, this doesn’t enable HTTPS.

I’ve read a couple different places online that talk about adding CertBot as a service etc, however none of these were specially for Lemmy. So I wasn’t sure this would work given the extra config file for nginx. Any advice on how you all got this to work would be appreciated! Thank you in advance :)

Edit: thanks for all the advice everyone! Sounds like I’ll be going the reverse proxy route, either with caddy or npm. Both seem simple enough to implement. Thanks again, and happy Friday!

  • Mikel@lemmy.farley.pro
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Caddy instead of nginx for years now. As long as your port forwarding is already setup, it’ll pull TLS certs for every domain in the config automatically and keep it up-to-date forever.

    It’s also super easy to use as a reverse proxy, so you can run one caddy server for all your sites on the same machine pretty easily.