Introduction

I've been wanting to get more into the stock market, and for that, I would have to keep up more with the news. However, I don't want to have to manually check news sites for interesting articles, and I have a homelab, so I decided to run FreshRSS on it. I will be running it in Docker and using NGinx in front of it as a reverse proxy.

Docker setup

The Docker setup was pretty simple, just following the Docker Compose installation instructions. All I had to do was download the docker-compose.yml and configure it to fit my needs. There were two important things to note though:

• To make sure the appliation runs at the port you want, don't forget to add a ports: entry in the config:
  

  
            ports:
              - "DESIRED PORT:80"
          

  
  Otherwise it will just run on port 80, which is not what I wanted.
• In the volumes section, the volumes are by default set to absolute paths, but I couldn't find where it put them. I like having the folders for the application in the same folder as the docker compose file anyway, so I changed those to be relative to the docker compose file:
  

  
            volumes:
              - ./data:/var/www/FreshRSS/data
              - ./extensions:/var/www/FreshRSS/extensions
          

  
  

NGinx setup

The NGinx setup is pretty simple as well. I just started out with this:

server {
  server_name hostname.domain-name
  location / {
          proxy_pass http://IP:PORT;
          proxy_http_version 1.1;
  }
}
        

However, that didn't work as the page could not be found when I entered the correct address. After some searching I found that you need to add some headers:

server {
  server_name hostname.domain-name
  location / {
          proxy_pass http://IP:PORT;
          proxy_http_version 1.1;

          # headers
          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;
  }
}

That's all folks!🕺