Can anyone provide simple Meshcentral behind NGINX proxy setup instructions?

manxam

Does anyone have straightforward documentation on installing Meshcentral behind an NGINX reverse proxy?
I note that there's mention of it in their blog and a video to watch but would prefer a straight :
npm install this
edit config.json with these changes for a reverse proxy
See this working proxy config for NGINX

It's not that I can't figure it out, but I have enough things that I'm messing around with right now that I don't want to invest a whole bunch of time diagnosing why MC and NGINX aren't playing together if possible

Thanks,
M

manxam

@Ylian, can you provide a sample json file for what's needed to run behind a reverse proxy that is also providing the SSL cert?

Thanks!

scottalanmiller

@manxam is nginx running on host or remotely?

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in Can anyone provide simple Meshcentral behind NGINX proxy setup instructions?:

@manxam is nginx running on host or remotely?

I would assume on host based on the topic.

manxam

@scottalanmiller : Remotely (i.e. another VM within the stack).
Running one NGINX proxy that forwards requests to various services / VMs using LE certs.

The NGINX config should be relatively simple, it's the info in the MC config.json that I'm uncertain about.

With that said, I just noticed that the pdf documentation contains NGINX proxy info in it now :
http://info.meshcentral.com/downloads/MeshCentral2/MeshCentral2UserGuide.pdf

Guess I have work to do

Happy Holidays!

scottalanmiller

I would just disable SSL completely and use HTTP between MeshCentral and Nginx. Then let Nginx deal with the cert on its own.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Can anyone provide simple Meshcentral behind NGINX proxy setup instructions?:

I would just disable SSL completely and use HTTP between MeshCentral and Nginx. Then let Nginx deal with the cert on its own.

I would use the self signed cert on MC.

manxam

@scottalanmiller, that's the plan :
NGINX as the proxy hosting the cert and HTTPS.
Proxy forward to MC on HTTP.

dafyre

@manxam said in Can anyone provide simple Meshcentral behind NGINX proxy setup instructions?:

@scottalanmiller, that's the plan :
NGINX as the proxy hosting the cert and HTTPS.
Proxy forward to MC on HTTP.

@JaredBusch has a good guide for getting it installed on Fedora here:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/18767/install-meshcentral2-on-fedora-29-with-mongodb

Below is what I'm using for my Nginx Config file.

server {
       listen         80;
       server_name    mesh.example.com
       return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;

        location /.well-known/acme-challenge {
            root /var/www/letsencrypt;
         }
}

server {
 #listen 80;
 listen 443 ssl;

 server_name mesh.example.com
 client_max_body_size 10G;
 fastcgi_buffers 64 4K;
 proxy_send_timeout     7200;
 send_timeout   7200;


##
# SSL Settings
##

    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/mesh.example.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/mesh.example.com/privkey.pem;
    #ssl_protocols  TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';


ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

# access_log /var/log/nginx/mesh.access.log;
# error_log /var/log/nginx/mesh.error.log;


 location / {
  proxy_pass https://w.x.y.z #Internal IP address and port if needed
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

  #Websocket Support
  proxy_http_version 1.1;
  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
  proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

}


 location /.well-known/acme-challenge {
    root /var/www/letsencrypt;
 }

}

Romo

You can also check http://info.meshcentral.com/downloads/MeshCentral2/MeshCentral2UserGuide-0.2.6.pdf page 30, It explains what is required to use nginx as a reverse proxy.

manxam

Got it all working. Thanks for everyone's assistance!