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Migration to NGINX

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for some reason i wanted to switch from Apache2 to NGINX and now i am quite happy with my decision.

So the first step was obviously to disable Apache2 and install NGINX, i read up on some differences between the configs and quickly migrated my old configs to the NGINX format.
So this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName git.iezn.de
    ServerAlias git.iezn.de
    ProxyPreserveHost On

    ProxyPass / https://iezn.de:3002/
    ProxyPassReverse / https://iezn.de:3002/

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/gittea-error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/gittea-access.log combined
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =git.iezn.de
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

turned into:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name git.iezn.de;

    location / {
        proxy_pass https://localhost:3002;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    }

    access_log /var/log/nginx/git.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/git.error.log error;
}

which with the help of certbot turned into:

server {
    server_name git.iezn.de;

    location / {
        proxy_pass https://localhost:3002;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    }

    access_log /var/log/nginx/git.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/git.error.log error;

    listen [::]:443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/git.iezn.de/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/git.iezn.de/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}
    server {
        if ($host = git.iezn.de) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot

    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name git.iezn.de;
    return 404; # managed by Certbot
}

and to be honest… using certbot with NGINX was WAY easier than using it with Apache2

Also the problem with gittea that i talked about in Gittea and Apache Config never showed up here…

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