worker_processes auto; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { # We construct a string consistent of the "request method" and "http accept header" # and then apply soem ~simply regexp matches to that combination to decide on the # HTTP upstream we should proxy the request to. # # Example strings: # # "GET:application/activity+json" # "GET:text/html" # "POST:application/activity+json" # # You can see some basic match tests in this regex101 matching this configuration # https://regex101.com/r/vwMJNc/1 # # Learn more about nginx maps here http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_map_module.html map "$request_method:$http_accept" $proxpass { # If no explicit matches exists below, send traffic to lemmy-ui default "http://lemmy-ui"; # GET/HEAD requests that accepts ActivityPub or Linked Data JSON should go to lemmy. # # These requests are used by Mastodon and other fediverse instances to look up profile information, # discover site information and so on. "~^(?:GET|HEAD):.*?application\/(?:activity|ld)\+json" "http://lemmy"; # All non-GET/HEAD requests should go to lemmy # # Rather than calling out POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, CONNECT and all the verbs manually # we simply negate the GET|HEAD pattern from above and accept all possibly $http_accept values "~^(?!(GET|HEAD)).*:" "http://lemmy"; } upstream lemmy { # this needs to map to the lemmy (server) docker service hostname server "lemmy:8536"; } upstream lemmy-ui { # this needs to map to the lemmy-ui docker service hostname server "lemmy-ui:1234"; } server { # this is the port inside docker, not the public one yet listen 1236; listen 8536; # change if needed, this is facing the public web server_name localhost; server_tokens off; gzip on; gzip_types text/css application/javascript image/svg+xml; # Upload limit, relevant for pictrs client_max_body_size 20M; # Send actual client IP upstream proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; # frontend general requests location / { proxy_pass $proxpass; rewrite ^(.+)/+$ $1 permanent; } # security.txt location = /.well-known/security.txt { proxy_pass "http://lemmy-ui"; } # backend location ~ ^/(api|pictrs|feeds|nodeinfo|.well-known) { proxy_pass "http://lemmy"; # proxy common stuff proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; } } }