Introduction In the self-hosted community, many tend towards setups involving NGINX or NGINX Proxy Manager to route to their containers. This article contrasts Nginx Proxy Manager and Traefik to elucidate why the latter might be the optimal choice for most containerized environments. The downsides of NGINX Proxy Manager Many appreciate…
In a previous post I described how to route traffic for a single Linux user through a VPN. For containers, the process is much simpler. To begin, create a docker-compose file (or a Portainer stack). This should include the containers you wish to protect, as well as a container connecting…
Back in the day, Plesk was the go-to platform for many developers and administrators who wanted to manage their web services in an intuitive manner. Today with the advent of container technology, I have completely transitioned from Plesk to a container-centric setup. In sync with this evolution, Pterodactyl now offers…
Namespaces One Open-Source software to easily to the job: https://github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn It can be even used with systemd (source): Before=systemd-user-sessions.service After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target Documentation=https://github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn [Service] Type=notify WorkingDirectory=/etc/openvpn ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/namespaced-openvpn --namespace %i…
Pterodactyl is a software for managing game servers. As it’s still in development, installing it in some environments is not straight-forward. You should read the official docs along. The guide is written for Plesk with CentOS but could be helpful for other panel users like cPanel too. Originally published…
When nginx is used with custom (rewrite) rules in Plesk, the rules could hinder the Let’s Encrypt authority to fetch the token file, which is automatically provided by Plesk. Detailed message: Error: Could not issue a Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS certificate for x. The authorization token is not…
As requested, I provide here a simple guide for upgrading pterodactyl to 0.7 (from 0.6), when used with my installation guide. Installing Pterodactyl for Plesk First log into the root terminal of your web (v)server and install PHP 7.2: plesk installer --select-release-current --install-component php7.2 SU…
When having expressions like this: location ~ ^/(?:\.|include) { deny all; } All requests which start with a dot (.) or include get denied. As such the required .well-known folder used for the acme challenge by Let’s Encrypt gets denied too and Plesk is unable to renew certificates. To solve it, it is…