Category: NGINX
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How We Eliminated Deployment Downtime with Docker DNS and Sequential Container Swaps
Every push to production killed all four containers for 2-3 minutes. Here’s how we cut that to 5 seconds using Docker’s built-in DNS resolver and sequential service recreation…
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Stop Rewiring Nginx Every Time You Add a New Homelab Stack
If you run a busy homelab, you already know the pattern. You spin up a new app. Then another one. Then you rebuild one, move ports around, rename…
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Protect Webtop Behind Nginx Proxy Manager With Authentik (Forward Auth)
[Note. I had to update authentik to get this to work. was prev running 2025.8.3 and everything I tried didnt resolve] This guide shows a working setup for…
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[Solved] Authentik Running behind NGINX Connection Errors
I have an authentik instance set up which has proved quite handy. I noticed howerver, that I was having some intermittent connection errors. In short, make sure to…
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Guacamole Behind Nginx Proxy Manager
Anyone who has used nginx may agree that nginx proxy manager just adds a nice ui and makes things like refreshing configs easier. I wanted to migrate to…
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Automating SSL Certificate Renewal with Certbot and Nginx
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates are a crucial component of web security, encrypting data transmission between clients and servers. However, SSL certificates have an expiration date, after which…
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How to Fix Media Uploads when WordPress is hosted behind NGINX
📁 If you’ve ever tried to upload a large file to your WordPress site, you may have encountered the “413 Request Entity Too Large” error. Or perhaps you…
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How to reload or restart NGINX
In my experience, there is a difference between restarting nginx using the following: And doing the following The second option above actaully reloads any configuration changes that have…
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🌍Hosting WordPress Docker behind NGINX reverse proxy
Many examples feature differing variations on this combo, but few seemed to use a wordpress container and a separate NGINX proxy My hosting setup uses a few different…
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NGINX 301 permanent redirect
I was having issues with bringing a website online… here is what I found: My browser was caching the permanent redirects in order to clear the redirect press…