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Where can I put custom nginx conf that won't be overwritten?

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  • girishG girish

    @kaxline said in Where can I put custom nginx conf that won't be overwritten?:

    I need them to share a root domain in order for the blog traffic to contribute to the static site's SEO.

    Not a SEO expert, so.. Is this a valid assumption that putting things in subdomains helps with SEO ?

    (If it's a hypothesis, I guess that's fine too. Maybe we can try to add something on Cloudron side to allow subpaths to redirect to another app but this has security implications we have to think through like cookies/sessions/email notifications etc).

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    @girish Seems to be the consensus, though Google SEO is an ever-changing black box:

    https://chrisberkley.com/blog/subdomains-for-seo/

    I think it makes sense since many sites have wildly different functionality and content based on subdomains.

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    • kaxlineK kaxline

      I'm trying to put my Ghost blog at the /blog route of my domain, while my static site is served from the / root via Surfer.

      I've got this config at the bottom of the Cloudron-generated .conf file for the Ghost app:

      location /blog {
           proxy_pass http://172.18.17.251:2368;
      }
      
      location / {
            proxy_pass http://172.18.17.70:3000;
      }
      

      Which gets overwritten quite often, at least once a day. It there a better way to do this routing or a different file to store the config in so that it doesn't get overwritten?

      Or do I need to setup a cron to just place it back in whenever it gets overwritten?

      I've read through a few posts here about nginx proxying but its hard to figure out the best method from what's been posted.

      Thanks!

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      robi
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      @kaxline have you tried separating out your changes out of the /etc/nginx/applications dir config file and into something like the sites-available dir in a separate config file?

      Cloudron doesn't use that dir so it won't be overwriting it with any app updates.

      Conscious tech

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      • robiR robi

        @kaxline have you tried separating out your changes out of the /etc/nginx/applications dir config file and into something like the sites-available dir in a separate config file?

        Cloudron doesn't use that dir so it won't be overwriting it with any app updates.

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        @robi I haven't tried that because I'm not sure where to put it in order to have it overwrite the default Cloudron configs. Any suggestions on that? Thanks!

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        • kaxlineK kaxline

          @robi I haven't tried that because I'm not sure where to put it in order to have it overwrite the default Cloudron configs. Any suggestions on that? Thanks!

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          girish
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          @kaxline I think to properly support this, we can look into this for the next release. For the moment, I am still perplexed why those nginx configs are being overwritten everyday. I am not able to reproduce this here atleast.

          Can you please try this:

          • Edit some random nginx config file
          • Add a dummy comment
          • Can you report back tomorrow if that comment is still there? Or did it disappear?
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          • kaxlineK kaxline

            @robi I haven't tried that because I'm not sure where to put it in order to have it overwrite the default Cloudron configs. Any suggestions on that? Thanks!

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            @kaxline there should be an nginx doc somewhere that describes the order in which it loads configs from different directories.

            Conscious tech

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              Rather than trying to get Docker to do something it isn't usually tasked with doing (or perhaps within the Cloudron system), do these posts offer a possible alternative?:

              https://cloak.ist/blog/how-to-put-a-ghost-blog-at-a-subdirectory-using-cloudflare-workers/

              https://www.indiehackers.com/product/img-vision/ghost-blog-is-now-hosted-on-main-domain--M6Gt3CSAp3nIFeZKOC-

              A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

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              • girishG girish

                @kaxline I think to properly support this, we can look into this for the next release. For the moment, I am still perplexed why those nginx configs are being overwritten everyday. I am not able to reproduce this here atleast.

                Can you please try this:

                • Edit some random nginx config file
                • Add a dummy comment
                • Can you report back tomorrow if that comment is still there? Or did it disappear?
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                wrote on last edited by
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                @girish OK, I chose a couple of the other app configs and added a comment. They were overwritten along with the Ghost config I originally was asking about. Any thoughts? Anything significant about the 5am/5pm PT time? Want me to test anything else? Send you some logs?

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                • scookeS scooke

                  Rather than trying to get Docker to do something it isn't usually tasked with doing (or perhaps within the Cloudron system), do these posts offer a possible alternative?:

                  https://cloak.ist/blog/how-to-put-a-ghost-blog-at-a-subdirectory-using-cloudflare-workers/

                  https://www.indiehackers.com/product/img-vision/ghost-blog-is-now-hosted-on-main-domain--M6Gt3CSAp3nIFeZKOC-

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                  wrote on last edited by
                  #15

                  @scooke Yes! Thank you! I was looking at how to do this with Cloudflare right off the bat but couldn't find how to do it. Working now!

                  I would say this is less about Docker and more about Nginx. It would be nice to easily route subdirectory paths to different Cloudron apps via Nginx. Maybe in the UI there's a way to add a directory path in the Location panel.

                  Thanks again!

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                  • kaxlineK kaxline

                    @girish OK, I chose a couple of the other app configs and added a comment. They were overwritten along with the Ghost config I originally was asking about. Any thoughts? Anything significant about the 5am/5pm PT time? Want me to test anything else? Send you some logs?

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                    girish
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                    @kaxline To give some update here, I put the comment in some of our internal cloudrons. I can confirm that in some of them the nginx configs are overwritten. I will investigate as to why.

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                      One can use the include /path/...; command for additional appX.conf files

                      I believe, you could use this configuration:

                      server {
                          server_name example.com;
                          listen      [::]:80;
                          listen      80;
                      
                          include /path/to/applications/*/nginx.conf;
                      }
                      

                      and then in each application's directory configure the redirection like this:

                      location    /app1 {
                          proxy_pass  http://app1;
                          proxy_http_version 1.1;
                          proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                          proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
                          proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
                          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port $server_port;
                          proxy_set_header X-Request-Start $msec;
                      }
                      

                      Conscious tech

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                      • kaxlineK kaxline

                        @scooke Yes! Thank you! I was looking at how to do this with Cloudflare right off the bat but couldn't find how to do it. Working now!

                        I would say this is less about Docker and more about Nginx. It would be nice to easily route subdirectory paths to different Cloudron apps via Nginx. Maybe in the UI there's a way to add a directory path in the Location panel.

                        Thanks again!

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                        girish
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                        #18

                        @kaxline I found the issue! Can you please try this one-liner - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/6839ff4cf60cb725d224619ee55bcf066a496a12 . The file to edit is /home/yellowtent/box/src/reverseproxy.js . After that, the nginx configs will not get overwritten everyday.

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                        • girishG girish

                          @kaxline I found the issue! Can you please try this one-liner - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/6839ff4cf60cb725d224619ee55bcf066a496a12 . The file to edit is /home/yellowtent/box/src/reverseproxy.js . After that, the nginx configs will not get overwritten everyday.

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                          @girish I ended up going with a Cloudflare script, which feels a little cleaner for now. I'll try this when I revisit the issue. Thanks for all your help!

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                          • kaxlineK kaxline

                            @girish I ended up going with a Cloudflare script, which feels a little cleaner for now. I'll try this when I revisit the issue. Thanks for all your help!

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                            @kaxline can you kindly share your script?

                            We have other Cloudflare users here who may benefit from your experience. 😄

                            Conscious tech

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                              @kaxline can you kindly share your script?

                              We have other Cloudflare users here who may benefit from your experience. 😄

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                              @robi Yes, sorry, I just followed the tutorial that was previously posted by @scooke

                              https://cloak.ist/blog/how-to-put-a-ghost-blog-at-a-subdirectory-using-cloudflare-workers/

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