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title: "How to use Nginx under Traefik"
date: 2019-12-16T19:55:47-05:00
tags:
- Nginx
draft: false
medium_enabled: true
---
I've been enjoying Traefik for its auto-discovery of containers. The only problem is that for a couple containers such as Plex and HomeAssistant I have host networking enabled. This usually results in Traefik failing to forward the traffic properly.
Having more fine grained control is exactly what Nginx is for! I don't want to switch my whole setup to Nginx since that would be a lot of configuration files for every docker container. But I think having configuration files for containers that use host networking is manageable.
In your docker-compose file first make sure that Traefik is disabled for containers that use host networking by adding the label `traefik.enable=false`
```yaml
homeassistant:
image: homeassistant/home-assistant
container_name: homeassistant
hostname: homeassistant
network_mode: host
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
volumes:
- /Volumes/homeassistant/config:/config
restart: always
labels:
- traefik.enable=false
```
Then add a new section for `nginx` adding the domains that you wish it to manage in the labels
```yaml
nginx:
image: linuxserver/nginx
container_name: nginx
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
volumes:
- /Volumes/nginx/config:/config
restart: always
labels:
- traefik.http.routers.my-container.rule=Host(`plex.example.com`,`homeassistant.example.com`)
```
Now on the host system add the configuration files for nginx to consume. Example:
```nginx
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name plex.example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://homelanip:32400;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
}
```
Similarly add a configuration file for `homeassistant` or any other service you have.
Now for this example, the subdomains `plex.example.com` and `homeassistant.example.com` are managed by Nginx.
To finish it off, `docker-compose start nginx`.