nginx-dev-proxy

Creates a container which acts as a proxy between your local dev environment and the public web.

It's useful for testing services which need to establish a connection to your local dev server; for example Webhooks, Open Graph Meta Tags sharing and SEO optimizations.

Prerequisites

A server running the following

• Docker
• jwilder/nginx-proxy as a reverse proxy
• nginxproxy/acme-companion for automatic cert generation
• A domain name pointing to your server
• An exposed port in your firewall

Instructions

Clone the repo to your server and replace the placeholder variables in docker-compose.yml and tunnel.sh.

REMOTE_PORT: The port exposed to the public web
SSH_PUB_KEY: Your dev machines pub key (usually in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)
DOMAIN: The domain pointing to the server, for example dev.domain.xyz

Replace the docker network in docker-compose with the external network nginxproxy/nginx-proxy is using.
Open REMOTE_PORT in your firewall.

Copy tunnel.sh to your local machine.

Run it passing the port of your local app as argument ./tunnel.sh 3000

Other

For more information on setting up a reverse proxy see https://hub.docker.com/r/jwilder/nginx-proxy