Reverse Proxy

TODO: Reverse proxy with Traefik + Docker

Using Caddy

Caddy is a great webserver written in go that automatically handles all SSL certificates without the need for certbot.

First setup Photoview via the regular docker-compose setup here. Then after installing Caddy it's time to setup your Caddyfile. Simply edit your caddyfile located at /etc/caddy/Caddyfile to the following (adjust to your domain).

photos.qpqp.dk {
reverse_proxy http://photos.qpqp.dk:8000
}

Then all we need to do now is systemctl reload caddy and then your photoview instance should now be accessible via https://photos.qpqp.dk with SSL and without the need of specifiying a port. That's it!

Using Apache VirtualHosts

If you are running the docker for Photoview on the same machine that is hosting your Nextcloud/Owncloud setup, and want them both to be accessible via the standard web port 80 - you'll need to setup a reverse proxy on your owncloud webserver to achieve that. There are many guides online going into more detail on this general type of setup you can refer to, like this one here.

As a crash-course, though, you can achieve this type of setup by enabling the following on your machine running Nextcloud/Owncloud and the Photoview setup by doing the following.

First, enable the necessary Apache Modules by running the following:

sudo a2enmod proxy
sudo a2enmod proxy_http
sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer
sudo a2enmod lbmethod_byrequests

Then, restart Apache by running

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now you'll need a VirtualHost entry for your photoview proxy. Here's an example below, of a virtual host file entry for Photoview. These are typically stored in /etc/apache2/sites-available.

You can create one with:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yoururl.ca.conf

You'll then want to populate it like below, changing the variables below to reflect your own domains:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin admin@yoururl.ca
        ServerName photos.yoururl.ca
        ServerAlias www.photos.yoururl.ca
        ProxyRequests Off
                ProxyPreserveHost On
                ProxyPass / http://photos.yoururl.ca:8000/
                ProxyPassReverse / http://photos.yoururl.ca:8000/
</VirtualHost>

For more information on VirtualHosts, take a look at this article.

Once you've created this VirtualHost entry, enable the entry with:

sudo a2ensite yoururl.ca.conf

restart your server once more with:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

and you should now be able to access your website on port 80, with Apache passing it through to the Photoview docker on port 8000.