Recommendation for Nginx Reverse Proxy setup in Electric Eel

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As it stands, I have NPM setup as a custom app in Dragonfish with a static IP from the bridge interface. Accomplishing this was quite easy, needing to configure only these two aspects:

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Fast forward: Upgrading to EE broke this as there’s no easy way to set a static IP like before. So, as the title says, I’m looking for a recommendation from those who are a lot more knowledgable than me :stuck_out_tongue: on how to accomplish this. I’ve read thru a few different threads, but nothing is too concise and I’d like the simplest, most no-nonsense approach.

Arguably, this shouldn’t be any more complicated to accomplish than before, and I’d prefer to work entirely within TrueNAS if at all possible.

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For anyone who comes across this post, I ended up deciding not to use the built-in apps functionality and instead setup a VM that runs Docker and uses Portainer for a UI. Please let me know if you have any questions!

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Tailscale still lets you use the host’s network adapter so Nginx-Proxy-Manager could have its own port:

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So that means it’s possible to add that setting to the TrueNAS version of Nginx-Proxy-Manager.

It would solve this problem immediately; no VM required. I refuse to use a VM when I can use containers instead.

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NPM is trivially easy to set up using the built-in apps on EE:

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