Anyone running Zoraxy v3, the reverse proxy for networking noobs? (zoraxy.arozos.com)
from Sunny@slrpnk.net to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 08:38
https://slrpnk.net/post/8966140

Zoraxy describes itself as:

“General purpose request (reverse) proxy and forwarding tool for networking noobs. Now written in Go!”.

Yet it seems to be packed with goodies and features, such as Geo-IP & Blacklist, ZeroTier controller integrated GAN, IP Scanner, Real Time Stats and even built in Uptime monitor. Addtionally, it can run via a single binary for those who don’t want to rely on Docker. There is also an Unraid Template available from IBRACORP. Lastly the project is under the AGPL license 🌻

I also checked, and saw this was recommended on this community 9months ago, but didn’t seem to get much attraction then. Has anyone tried this yet? It seems like a good alternative to say NGINX proxy manager and am wondering if I should switch, but wanted to hear thoughts first!

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Sunny@slrpnk.net on 26 Apr 09:32 next collapse

Let me know if the Screenshots are loading or not… on mobile they dont seem to load for me, but on PC they do…?

PunkiBas@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 09:50 next collapse

They’re not working for me

Sunny@slrpnk.net on 26 Apr 10:04 collapse

could u check now?

PunkiBas@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 10:32 collapse

Now they’re working

Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show on 26 Apr 09:50 next collapse

They load on the link to github, but not here on Lemmy.

Sunny@slrpnk.net on 26 Apr 10:04 collapse

hopefully fixed now?

dragnansia@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 10:07 collapse

They’re working for me on PC.

callmepk@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 09:54 collapse

Not working for me

Sunny@slrpnk.net on 26 Apr 10:06 collapse

should work now :)

nexusband@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 10:17 next collapse

Yes, I did. But I couldn’t get my Homeassistant to work routing through it, so I switched back to Proxy Manager…

palitu@aussie.zone on 26 Apr 10:54 next collapse

I too am interested.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club on 26 Apr 11:32 next collapse

That looks pretty cool. I think it’s just that everyone kinda picked their setup at the start and nobody wants to mess with it anymore lol.

I’ve got traefik setup so that I just add a few lines to a docker compose file and I’ll automatically have a new service running under a new subdomain, with SSL certificate and all. Never have to think about it.

emptiestplace@lemmy.ml on 26 Apr 22:08 collapse

Have you automated host record creation?

bdonvr@thelemmy.club on 26 Apr 22:41 collapse

I just have a wildcard subdomain record. (CNAME: *.mydomain.com)

Then the traffic gets sent to Traefik which checks the request for what subdomain it is asking for and routes it accordingly.

It’s just two label lines in each docker compose with whatever subdomain I want to use and a minute or two later it’s gotten the certificates and it’s available.

emptiestplace@lemmy.ml on 26 Apr 23:14 collapse

Ah, that would make it easy. I can’t use a wildcard with most of my domains, but maybe I could set up subdomains to have this convenience for dev/test sites. Thanks!

I suspect it would be trivial to add a hook to dynamically create (and remove, maybe) DNS records, just haven’t tried yet.

Dianoga@lemm.ee on 28 Apr 14:35 collapse

Out of curiosity, why cant you use a wildcard?

emptiestplace@lemmy.ml on 28 Apr 17:10 collapse

Lots of different hosts, multiple load balancers / ingress controllers.

Zeoic@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 12:05 next collapse

Looks interesting! The ui looks miles ahead of NPM, so I might need to check it out

morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social on 26 Apr 12:34 next collapse

I use Zoraxy on all my servers, it replaced Nginx proxy manager (NPM) for me completely. Installed on my host system, it points directly into docker containers via IPV6 in most cases.

For services that I run on the host directly, it points to nginx or apache, both work well with Zoraxy. Synape, Mastodon, Immich, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Nextcloud, WordPress… No problem

If you run Zoraxy in docker, it works like NPM, but it has no advanced tab for additional configuration. It is just a reverse proxy, not a full web server like NPM, which is basically a GUI for nginx.

You will need nginx in addition for traffic splitting for some services, like Synapse or Mastodon, even in docker. In NPM this is called locations

I think it is beginner friendly, since those users mostly use docker containers. Container mostly work out of the box like in NPM. They can use Zoraxy in docker too and point it directly to a container name and port, immich_server:3001 for example. Same as in NPM

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 26 Apr 16:05 collapse

You will need nginx in addition for traffic splitting for some services, like Synapse or Mastodon, even in docker. In NPM this is called locations

That sounds like a pretty major missing feature.

morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social on 26 Apr 16:31 collapse

Why? It is a reverse proxy, not a fully webserver, this is the difference from Nginx Proxy Manager, which includes Nginx. But advanced configuration can be a pain with NPM too, just look for Synapse and Delegation. This is troublesome for most users of NPM.

Zoraxy can serve a static website, but traffic splitting like for Synapse, MinIO or Mastodon is part of a (fully) webserver.

I use Zoraxy as a reverse proxy for easy managing my services, mostly directly in containers, but I use it with Apache and Nginx on the same host too for WordPress and Nextcloud for example.

Beginners will mostly only use docker containers, without further configuration, like in NPM and this works out of the box :)

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 26 Apr 16:45 collapse

Splitting traffic on a reverse proxy host based on various triggers is a pretty common thing for a reverse proxy to do. Caddy does it, Nginx does it, HAProxy does it.

cevn@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 14:55 next collapse

I use Caddy. It works from Cli but very ez to use. Might try this in the future tho

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Apr 04:05 collapse

Same. Caddy is absurdly simple to configure

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 26 Apr 16:15 next collapse

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
nginx Popular HTTP server

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org on 26 Apr 22:01 next collapse

I wish I’d seen this before the minor hell I went through learning how to geoip block via iptables. 😁

It looks interesting. I think my only real concern is security. There’s a lot of people using and working on nginx so, presumably, more people to identify bugs and squash them.

Sunny@slrpnk.net on 26 Apr 22:28 collapse

Yeah that’s a valid point, especially if you’re pointing this to the outside world.

SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org on 26 Apr 22:30 collapse

I’m still curious tho. I’ll probably set it up for some internal only sites to test.

Lifebandit666@feddit.uk on 27 Apr 08:29 collapse

I tried it out yesterday. All I wanted to do was add names to my services. I managed to get Homarr to show up when I go to server.local but couldn’t then get Overseerr to show when I go to overseerr.server.local or server.local/overseerr

So after an hour or so of fiddling I gave up.

I use Tailscale so I just don’t need to have everything sent to my domain, but I’m struggling just keeping it all on the local network.