pcopy behind nginx proxyserver

[elearningdienst]

Hi folks, looks like pcopy is a good self-hosted service for my needs. Is there a way to run it behind a nginx reverse proxy? Tried a basic conig, but it always says "bad gateway"

In my config file the server and port is set as followed
'''
ServerAddr pcopy.XXXX.de:443
ListenAddr :443/https
'''

On the nginx (another machine) I have a ssl certificate from letsencrypt.

XXX@pcopy:~$ pcopy join pcopy.XXXX.de:443 work
Joining clipboard at pcopy.XXXXX.de:443 ... failed.
Cannot connect to https://pcopy.XXXXX.de:443: Get "https://pcopy.XXXXX.de:443/info": dial tcp 127.0.1.1:443: connect: connection refused

Sometimes (don't know why) it asked me for a password. But the hashed password from the configfile does not work.

Any Ideas?

[binwiederhier]

It should be possible. I don't see why not. I'll give it a shot tonight

[binwiederhier]

Oh my. I can reproduce it locally. I must have screwed something up in the latest release. I'll fix tonight.

[binwiederhier]

Scratch that. It's just a little trickier.

In this example, port 12345 is the external port and 2580 is the internal port. If you want to use SSL, you should terminate HTTPS/SSL in nginx on 12345 and forward HTTP (not HTTPS!) to pcopy.

That's why pcopy is listening on HTTP (ListenAddr :2580/http), but advertising the external ServerAddr http://your-external-domain.mydomain.com:12345:

$ cat ~/.config/pcopy/server.conf 
ServerAddr http://your-external-domain.mydomain.com:12345
ListenAddr 127.0.0.1:2580/http

$ cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/pcopy 
upstream pcopy_upstream {
  server 127.0.0.1:2580;
}

server {
  listen 12345;
  server_name pcopy;

  location / {
    proxy_pass         http://pcopy_upstream;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header   Host $http_host;
    proxy_connect_timeout   1m;
    proxy_send_timeout      1m;
    proxy_read_timeout      1m;
  }
}