Deploying Anubis (AI Crawler Filtering) on a Cloudron Server

[hareen]

I'm wondering whether it's possible to deploy something like Anubis (Github, Webpage) to challenge web scraper bots when visiting certain subdomains on a Cloudron instance.

I currently have another VPS which I have deployed Anubis with Nginx proxy Mangager and it works pretty well at stopping crawlers as per metrics output of Anubis.

If it can't or shouldn't be deployed on Cloudron itself, is it possible for the VPS with Nginx Proxy Manager to handle traffic and then forward it to Cloudron? Not sure how Cloudron will behave with addition of an additional reverse proxy in front of it.

[james]

Hello @hareen
Good question!
Can't give a definite answer until I looked deeper into this tool and maybe test it.

[A Former User]

You could technically place Anubis on your existing VPS as a reverse proxy in front of Cloudron, but you'd need to ensure that the proxy passes headers and SSL correctly to avoid breaking Cloudron services. Have you tested if Cloudron’s built-in reverse proxy supports custom middleware or chaining with another proxy? If not, isolating Anubis to only specific subdomains via your external Nginx setup may be the safer route.