Reverse Proxy Settings with multiple OS controllers

[Jason]

Hi All,

I have been trying for some time to get reverse proxy to work for 3 OS controllers. All have different IPs plus different port numbers. The issue that I am running into is that the first controller I hit, say domain.com/homeos is the only controller that I can get to after that even if I use domain.com/shopos. If I use the external ip + port that works as well as internal ip + port also domain.com:port#. The only way I can’t get it work is with domain.com/homeos.

I have tried this with nginx and Caddy.

Is the software designed to be used in a multiple controller environment with reverse proxy? Anyone have a setup like this working?

Thanks.

[Ray]

I am not familiar with reverse proxy, so I don’t have any insights here. How did you set up reverse proxy? For example, is domain.com you are referring to a server somewhere on the Internet? Or is it your local server at home?

[Jason]

Hi Ray,

Sorry did not see a response to my question.

I have a reverse proxy setup on my home server. domain.com is a generic reference to my personal domain. I have it setup so that when I type in http://www.domain.com/homeos it will try to hit the local ip address:port #. I have tried with nginx and now caddy. I think it is to do something with OS and how it process requests and perhaps the password that is sent? Networking is not my forte but I have gotten other programs setup and working with reverse proxy.

If I can provide logs or anything let me know.

Jason

[Jason]

Sorry forgot to mention that I can hit each of OS controllers by port # so http://www.domain.com:8119 for example works but just not by name ie http://www.domain.com/homeos.

[Ray]

I think you missed my response. Here is what I asked:
I am not familiar with reverse proxy, so I don’t have any insights here. How did you set up reverse proxy? For example, is domain.com you are referring to a server somewhere on the Internet? Or is it your local server at home?

[Jason]

domain.com is a generic reference to my own domain http://www.jason.com for example that I have to access on my local network applications.

I am using Caddy Server as software that serves as my webserver. So instead of having to type in the external ip address I can type in my domain name for example http://www.jason.com/opensprinklerhome and that will translate that to my external IP address:port number internally to reach my home opensprinkler on 192.168.1.119:6119.

I hope that makes more sense I not sure if I am explaining this technically correct.

[Predrag]

I have similar setup as yours, but I use nginx as reverse proxy. It works without issues.

[Ray]

@Jason: sorry that I couldn’t be of much help here: I don’t know how reverse proxy works. But as far as the firmware goes, I don’t think anything in the firmware prevents it from being used in a multi-controller environment. Each instance has its own IP and port number, and the firmware does not by itself talk to other controllers, so I don’t see anything here that prevents multiple controllers being used together.

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