Access your internal websites! Nginx Reverse Proxy in Home Assistant.

Use the Nginx Reverse Proxy add-on in Home Assistant to access your local Home Assistant instance as well as any other internal resources on your local network. A step-by-step walkthrough of installation, configuration, and demonstration.

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00:00 Intro
00:16 Nginx Reverse Proxy Overview
03:00 Install MariaDB and Proxy Add-ons
05:45 Initial Log into Nginx Proxy Manager
06:55 Configure First Proxy Host
14:10 Configure Access List
15:30 Configure Second Proxy Host
17:50 Manage SSL Certs
18:07 Demo the New Domains on Phone
19:30 Wrap-Up and Subscribe!

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[Percy]

Thank you for this tutorial. I spent over 10 hours now on this problem, becuase I didn't enable Websocket Support, so thanks for this nice video.

[Denizenn]

Thank you very much for this! Hours spent yesterday trying to achieve this and got it done in 30 minutes thanks to your video, really appreciate it! <3

[btrigaux]

Hi Chris,
I'm trying to setup this NGINX addon on top of my HA. I took NGINX Home Assistant SSL proxy, which is a bit (or more ?) different from the one you're covering here.
Please do you have some recommendation about the one to be used ? My config : Home Assistant 2022.8.4 / Supervisor 2022.08.3 / Operating System 8.4 / Frontend 20220802.0 - latest.
With NGINX installed and configured, only the local http ways is operational. The HTTPS way (with duckdns) doesn't work.
The strange thing for me is the lack of error message in any log file.
Thanks for helping, Bernard.

[borishruby]

Hi Chris, wonderful video. Probably the best regarding reverse proxy. Everything is now clear to me. Many thanks. Really love your videos. Keep up the good work!
But I have found out that the Access List doesn't work for me as it should. If I set some authorization to some host it won't let me in even when putting in the correct credentials. The small window keeps popping up regardless of what credentials I key in. Btw. if you made some changes in authorizations you have to always update the host as well otherwise it won't be applied. That's a bit annoying but it is like that. I've found it somewhere in youtube by chance.

[miguelgarcia-vgfh]

I liked and subscribed to keep on watching your videos on HA so keep em coming.

[giolovin]

I have one big question. When should one use 'NGINX Home Assistant SSL proxy' and when 'Nginx proxy manager'? Does the first one only allow one domain and the second one several different domains? What's the difference between those two addons?

[NinaMariePhoto]

Im having trouble where I dont see any errors with maria or nginx, but when I try to load the nginx UI, it just doesnt load. eventually it times out, what am I doing wrong?

[GYTZ]

Chris, great video! One question; can I use a single domain to connect to different ports on different servers, or do I have to create more domains or perhaps sub domains?

[dogo]

Was the NGINX proxy manager removed? I don't see it in the add-on store and am unable to add the git through HACS

[Shaqk]

Excellent video. Question: If i use the Home Assistant Cloud I don't need to setup this, right?
Thanks.

[cemaranetfeedback]

So... CMIIW the advantages of this method compared to using free ddns such as duckdns / freeddns is that we can access locally and externally from phone, and secondly it's secured right? Other than that Is there any latency improvement ?

[craigw]

Nice presentation, thanks. Since I already have HA running, might as well use it to access some other servers in the house.

[errorish]

Would this still work if your ISP uses CGNAT?
I'm trying to setup a way to expose my Home Assistant VM to the internet and most methods don't work with CGNAT.

[NerdCyclist]

I have managed to get nginx up and running and I also have a spare domain that I can use but (only used for email) what I don't understand is how to point the domain towards the nginx server. I plan to use different sub domains to access different servers on my network, how do I get this to work? Do I have to create A records on the sub domains? As a home ISP doesn't provide static IP I use a DDNS service. Any help would be appreciated

[rlillard]

I followed this guide and I am receiving error 400: Bad Request when accessing this on an external network. Internal works file.

[jmaviles]

Thank you @mostlychris, I am a little stuck, I am trying throught Force SSL and always same error message like your in min 5, how to resolve it will be great !! I am using duckdns and is not in DNS challenge list comments?

[patricklang]

I have an external nginx proxy manager, but I always get 403 forbidden, does anyone know why?

[antoniodecrisci]

Another great video. What if you used force SSL with let's encrypt instead of challenge dns? I tried the former but kept getting "internal error" with nginx....so I'm just using DuckDNS with SSL. Not sure why I can't get nginx to work with force SSL.

[dhtguru]

Hi Chris, love your work. Always check with you here before I look anywhere else with new projects. I used this video to setup my remote access. Now its time to renew my Lets Encrypt certificate (6 days left) and I am getting an "Internal Error" msg from the Nginx Proxy Manager page when I select "Renew Now". The forum at Lets Encrypt weren't really knowledgeable about HA and could only offer guesses. Any clue on how I can renew? Thanks in advance.

[michaellim]

Very informative video. That is what I am looking for to setup nginx. Just one question can i add pi-hole to my network after setting up the Nignx reverse proxy and how to do it?