Install NGINX Proxy Manager on a Raspberry Pi

After spending a little while playing around with the various Docker options this evening I thought I’d put together the config.json and docker-compose.yml files that finally worked for me when trying to deploy a stack of containers for NGINX Proxy Manager (I’m trying to play around with some reverse proxying on my local network whilst I use the quarantine/lockdown period to test new things!)

Using https://github.com/jlesage/docker-nginx-proxy-manager doesn’t seem to work (standard_init_linux.go:211: exec user process caused "exec format error" being the error) as it doesn’t have an ARM build and whilst the official image grabbed everything, the database container was throwing a similar error to the 1st. Playing around with linuxserver’s MariaDB container wasn’t working too well either (migration file "20180618015850_initial.js" failed was the initial error) and then I stumbled upon a Github user’s comment and whilst that didn’t work perfectly for me, a little tweaking led me to the below. With these, you’ll have a working instance of NGINX Proxy Manager running on your Raspberry Pi in no time.

Required files for NGINX Proxy Manager

config.json

{
"database": {
"engine": "mysql",
"host": "db",
"name": "DBNAME",
"user": "DBUSERNAME",
"password": "DBPASSWORD",
"port": 3306
  }
}

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"  
services:  
  app:  
    image: jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest  
    restart: always  
    ports:  
      # Public HTTP Port:  
      - 80:80  
      # Public HTTPS Port:  
      - 443:443  
      # Admin Web Port:  
      - 81:81  
    volumes:  
# Make sure this config.json file exists as per instructions above:  
      - ./config.json:/app/config/production.json  
      - ./data:/data  
      - ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt  
  db:  
    image: yobasystems/alpine-mariadb:latest  
    restart: always  
    environment:  
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ROOTPASSWORD  
      MYSQL_DATABASE: DBNAME  
      MYSQL_USER: DBUSERNAME  
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: DBPASSWORD  
    volumes:  
      - /PATH/TO/CONTAINER/FILES:/var/lib/mysql  
    expose:  
      - "3306"

Once you have both of these in the same folder, use docker-compose up -d and let it run its course. If you see no errors, that’s it, you’re done!

If you’re also looking for another Docker container to run. Check out my guide on setting up Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare.