project ip address

AnonymousTRIAL

a year ago

so i setup a eployment using the Nginx Proxy Manager template, but what ip do i put in the A record in order for the proxy to actually work?
project id: 29fe5625-5c86-45a0-a9d5-cd9822c58c80

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a year ago

may i ask why the proxy manager was used?


AnonymousTRIAL

a year ago

wdym? i was searching a free way to host Nginx Proxy Manager and some people suggested me to use railway so i did and made it with the template


a year ago

right but I never understood the purpose of that template, what does it help you achieve


AnonymousTRIAL

a year ago

nginx proxy manager is just a nginx reverse proxy, but with an user interface
can be used to point the domain to another ip/hostname

for example on the proxy

  • [example.com](example.com) could be pointed to 12.34.56.78:5000, then https://[example.com](example.com) would show the content of [http://12.34.56.78:5000](http://12.34.56.78:5000)

  • [abc.def.com](abc.def.com) could be pointed too [my.hostname.com:30158](my.hostname.com:30158), then https://[abc.def.com](abc.def.com) would show the content of http://[my.hostname.com:30158](my.hostname.com:30158)
    (including they paths)
    and both domains pointed to the same ip address


a year ago

but what are you using it for? for some reason I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a better way to do whatever you're doing


AnonymousTRIAL

a year ago

cause the host i use for some of my sites use urls such as [catfein.alfari.id](catfein.alfari.id):PORT
and i want to link a domain to them
an example http://catfein.alfari.id:30009
which is an instance of NTFY


a year ago

then im not sure where nginx proxy manager comes in to play here, can't this be done with cnames in your dns provider?


barteksadurskiTRIAL

a year ago

i think you could use caddy for this


a year ago

true, but with the information I'm given I don't currently see a need to use a reverse proxy


AnonymousTRIAL

a year ago

i can use CNAME in some of my domains, but not all since some of them have other records


AnonymousTRIAL

a year ago

i can use CNAME, A, AAAA, MX, TXT, URL (redirect)

so on some only IPv4, IPv6 and some other can sue the cname


a year ago

okay, well in that case, railway does not have a static IP, you can't use IP addresses, you need to use cnames